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Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in open-water sewage canals contaminated with untreated wastewater in resource-constrained regions

Sewage-based surveillance for COVID-19 has been described in multiple countries and multiple settings. However, nearly all are based on testing sewage treatment plant inflows and outflows using structured sewage networks and treatment systems.....

Precision Health - Asia’s first city-wide wastewater surveillance system for COVID management

During the COVID-19 pandemic, most of the cities’ administration’s response have been city-wide and universal such as (i) with city-wide lockdowns as containment measures, (ii) testing and tracing symptomatic cases and (iii) universal roll out of vaccination programs. ,

The sewage sleuths turning Bangalore’s wastewater into epidemiological treasure

Measuring virus levels in wastewater can help track the pandemic. But how useful is that?

In March 2020, the Austrian ski town of Ischgl—known for 239 kilometers of uninterrupted runs and an exuberant après-ski scene—suddenly became infamous as the site of the one of the first COVID-19 superspreading events. Hundreds of infected skiers took the virus home and seeded outbreaks all around Europe.

What wastewater surveillance in Bengaluru reveals about COVID-19 trend

An independent project monitoring wastewater in 46 locations in Bengaluru has interesting data that could potentially work as a city-wide early warning system for COVID-19 outbreaks. The platform called

COVID-19: Four wards reporting more cases than others

The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has decided to extend the COVID-19 sewage surveillance project to the micro level across all wards in Bengaluru. Earlier this year, in May, the Government had launched the initiative to track the emergence of COVID-19 clusters on a pilot basis in 45 wards.

Bengaluru to have wastewater surveillance points for possible spike in Covid cases

A wastewater survey held in several areas has detected traces of the novel coronavirus, indicating the presence of active and undiagnosed cases or non-infectious cases still shedding the microbe.

Karnataka: Sewage surveillance best way to detect Covid spre

BENGALURU: Members of the state Covid-19 technical advisory committee have suggested the government take up sewage surveillance to check if there is any transmission of the virus in the community.