Express News Service
HYDERABAD: Hyderabad-based Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), along with the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT), is collecting samples from various water bodies in the city to find out how many people are affected by Covid-19 and whose load is more for which virus variant. They are carrying out the study based on wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE).
During the first wave in August last year, the two institutions published a part of the ongoing study based on samples they had collected from different water bodies in the city, including Hussainsagar, Pedda Cheruvu (in Nacharam) and Nizam Talab.