What Clues to the Covid-19 Epidemic Lie in Monaco’s Waste-Water?
21 January , 2021
@Barik5ive: Pexels
Did you know that there are back-up ways to test for the presence of Covid-19 in communities other than individual testing. Researchers have been investigating if waste residue such as in the sewer system would yield traces of the virus and if that would give clues as to the rate of infection. The answer is that there are indeed traces of the virus.
Fortunately they are not at levels that are dangerous to those researching it. They are non- contaminating and inactive. And it is also true that the levels of the virus found in the sewer system sometimes (but not always) is linked to the level of infection in a community.