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Victoria keeps finding virus in its wastewater What s going on?

Advertisement COVID-19 has been detected in Victorian wastewater at least 13 times in the past month despite there not having been a single case of coronavirus in the community for 63 days – but experts say the testing program is working well. Wastewater testing is used all over the world to check for the presence of coronavirus and other diseases. Credit:AP Wastewater testing is a powerful but inexact early warning system, potentially signalling the start of a new infectious cluster before people even know they are unwell and is sensitive enough to pick up one sick person in a catchment of 100,000 people.

Covid-19: Melbourne health authorities alert but not alarmed after hundreds ordered to retest over sewage samples

Victorian health authorities remain “alert but not alarmed” at the prospect of a new Covid-19 case after the discovery of viral fragments in wastewater sparked an order to more than 240 people to immediately retest. The urgent warning was followed by news that a seventh mass vaccination clinic will open in the Melbourne suburb of Cranbourne next week, the same day all Victorians over the age of 50 will be eligible for a Covid-19 jab. The 246 people from an extensive list of suburbs who were told to get retested on Thursday include recently returned interstate travellers from designated red or orange zone areas and four close contacts of the positive case who travelled from Perth to Melbourne on flight QF778 last week.

Coronavirus: Hundreds ordered to retest over sewage samples; Cranbourne vaccination site announced

Dr Dan Deere, a Melbourne University microbiologist in charge of Australia’s wastewater monitoring program, said there was a chance that the very strong fragments found in areas including Oak Park, Chirnside Park, Greensborough and Altona could indicate an active case. “Hopefully it’s quite a large number of people shedding low levels of virus, but the theoretical possibility [is] it’s a person early on in the stage of infection, returning them a higher level of virus, so that’s why the health department’s raised a heightened alert,” he told radio station 3AW. Dr Deere said that although there had been no active community cases for 63 days, viral shedding could be from people who had recently completed hotel quarantine and previously had COVID-19.

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