Research shows the value of complementing diagnostic surveillance of critical diseases with environmental surveillance, but the government has yet to pledge funds for such country-wide initiatives and for extra staff for now better-equipped public hospitals
Campaigners will file a high court challenge to the government's plan to reduce raw sewage discharges into rivers and seas in England, arguing that it is insufficiently ambitious.
At the Center for Global Development, we have been avidly nurturing the creation of the fund, stretching back to the G20 High Level Independent Panel report which proposed its creation as a Financial Intermediary Fund within the World Bank. We have offered a roadmap for how to operationalize the fund, reflected on the fund’s first white paper, and commented on how to make the money work to support government preparedness.
Public health officials monitor sewage in local communities to track COVID, polio, flu and more. But no one asks the people being monitored for their permission – raising some questions and concerns.
Monitoring waste-water samples for coronavirus remnants enabled researchers in Austria to identify when omicron became the dominant variant and track the virus's transmission in communities