Health
Sewage testing will show virus traces for months to come, experts say – The Age
COVID-19 fragments likely to continue surfacing in Victoria’s wastewater, with infectious disease experts warning that some people could keep on shedding virus.
“What is happening is you’re shedding part of the virus that remains in your body,” Professor Collignon said.
The contagious period usually ends on average about 10 days after someone develops symptoms but mounting research is increasingly finding that in some cases people can continue to shed remnants of coronavirus even when it is essentially dead and they are not infectious anymore.
An electron microscope image shows the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus (yellow) emerging from the surface of cells (pink)…
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