Biologists say road and sidewalk salt is harming life in Halifax’s watershed. It’s also the first resort for many Haligonians after a deep freeze. But does it have to be?
More than five months after the Department of Health confirmed it was looking into expanding COVID-19 wastewater monitoring in New Brunswick to help track transmission and trends, officials are still working on it with no new information to share.
Public health officials have raised questions around whether some COVID-19 cases in the province went undetected in early 2021, after an apparent mismatch between the amount of COVID-19 appearing in wastewater compared to the province’s own COVID-19 testing.
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Omicron was found in Nova Scotia wastewater weeks before it was discovered by the province and even before the novel COVID-19 strain was reported by South Africa, according to new research from Dalhousie University in Canada.
Explaining the situation, Professor Graham Gagnon, director of the Dalhousie University Centre for Water Resource Studies, said that "Our team detected Omicron , retrospectively, in Nova Scotia wastewater in mid-November and will be able to provide further information in the future."