Lessons for Resilience
Consider screening sewage and wastewater to monitor the correlation between sewer data and COVID-19
Topic:
Infrastructure
Keywords:
Waste management
Content:
Wastewater-based epidemiology groups in Australia, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the USA have already reported detecting traces of COVID-19 in wastewater. Although COVID-19 is not known to infect humans through sewage or wastewater, similar diseases can, and so monitoring the behaviour of COVID-19 in these environments is important. Consider integrating sewer surveillance and wastewater inspections into systems for COVID-19 monitoring:
- Develop a 'dashboard' of data to assess the correlations between all collated COVD-19-related indicators as seen in the Netherlands
- Provide information on potential transmission pathways and improve the early warning of new outbreaks by understanding the relationships between: wastewater analysis, the number registered infected people, and societal or behavioural traits
Source link(s):
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Netherlands,
Austria
https://www.dutchwatersector.com/news/sewer-surveillance-part-of-dutch-national-covid-19-dashboard
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Sweden,
United States of America
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7191284/