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Cape Town’s wastewater treatment stations are being monitored regularly for Covid-19. You can find the latest results on the South African Medical Research Council’s website.
This new way of trying to detect a surge in infections has not come out of the blue. It follows a promising study in which viral RNA of the coronavirus was measured in five untreated wastewater treatment plants in the Western Cape on a single day during the first wave of the epidemic on 18 June 2020.
The study, conducted by the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC), the Cape Town City Metro and researchers from several universities, has been published in the latest issue of the