COVID-19 found in seven sewage treatment plants

Queensland Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young said evidence of COVID-19 was found in sewage collected at Caboolture South, Oxley Creek, Bundamba, Gibson Island at South Brisbane, Luggage Point in North Brisbane, Maryborough and at Pulgul in Hervey Bay.The positive results are among more than 50 wastewater samples in Queensland that have contained fragments of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, since sewage analysis began last July.Dr Young said the tests did not equate to evidence of new…



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