The program's end will leave the Canadian province without a valuable tool for monitoring infectious disease.
The Ontario government ended its COVID-19 wastewater surveillance program in late July amid a surge in cases.
Researchers, including Robert Delatolla, PhD, a professor of civil engineering at the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, who helped lead the Ontario wastewater surveillance program, are waiting for the Public Health Agency of Canada to announce which sites in the province they will monitor. Delatolla's research group was among the first to detect COVID-19 in wastewater in April 2020.
The end of Ontario's wastewater surveillance program is"a huge blow" to the ability to track the uptick of new pathogens, said Langlois."By cutting funding to these programs, we're basically losing access to near real-time data." The collaboration between researchers and public health officials was a key component of Ontario's program, according to Mark Servos, PhD, a research scientist and Canada research chair in water quality protection at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Originally a fisheries biologist, Servos was among the first researchers to help develop COVID wastewater testing as part of the initial"grassroots" efforts.
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