CORONAVIRUS | Early results of the new detection method are encouraging.
| Researchers in Switzerland have been able to detect the new coronavirus at even low concentrations in wastewater, offering a potential early warning system for flareups in infections as countries emerge from emergency lockdowns.could let public health officials see a resurgence of Covid-19 infections earlier than with diagnostic tests, perhaps by around a week, the scientists said on Thursday.
Scientists from the Federal Institutes of Technology in Zurich and Lausanne said the surveillance method still needed improvements before it would be able to draw robust conclusions about viral concentrations in the original samples. The researchers managed to detect the novel coronavirus in all the samples. Concentrations in more recent samples were so high that analysis appeared relatively easy. But that was not apparent with the samples from February.
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