How sewage water can alert authorities on Covid-19 hotspots, virus strains

Posted on June 2, 2021November 17, 2022 by [email protected]

Recently, more than 40,000 people living in around a dozen suburbs in Sydney were asked to get tested for Covid-19 after traces of the novel coronavirus were found in sewage water in the areas despite no new local cases.

This initiative is piloted, incubated, and promoted by Swasti and Catalyst Management Services as part of the #COVIDActionCollab supported by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Skoll Foundation.

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