MELBOURNE: Australia is getting down and dirty to combat the COVID-19 pandemic - unrolling a vast programme of sewage testing this week in the ...
MELBOURNE: Australia is getting down and dirty to combat the COVID-19 pandemic - unrolling a vast programme of sewage testing this week in the hope of finding hidden clusters of the coronavirus.
Sewage has also been tested in places like Paris, Tokyo, Amsterdam, Massachusetts and Valencia, Spain - although mostly on a small scale to prove detection can work.As Australia takes tentative steps toward reopening after a two-month shutdown, health officials are betting on a massive programme of testing and contact tracing to help prevent a second wave of cases.
"We know that coronavirus is excreted in the faeces for up to six weeks after first symptoms appear," Crosbie said, adding there were no concerns about contracting the virus from treated water as conventional wastewater treatments killed it off. "Compared to clinical testing it is very cost-effective. But by no means does it replace clinical surveillance," he said.READ: How faeces could be a silver bullet in tracking COVID-19
Australia has been successful in containing the spread of COVID-19, recording just over 7,000 cases and 100 deaths from the virus.
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