KWR in the news G.J. Medema - Coronavirus pathogens in SEWAGE and wastewater couls help track the spread of the disease and act as an early warning system for future outbreaks

“Sewage and wastewater could be the key to tracking the spread of coronavirus and help warn of future outbreaks, a study finds. Researchers from the KWR Water Research Institute in the Netherlands studied sewage samples from seven cities to look for evidence of COVID-19 in dewage. The found that even when there were few people with reported cases of the deadly coronavirus in the country, traces of it were still present in the sewers.”

(Citation: Morrison, R. – KWR in the news – Coronavirus pathogens in SEWAGE and wastewater couls help track the spread of the disease and act as an early warning system for future outbreaks – www.dailymail.co.uk (2020)2 April)