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Is coronavirus in wastewater a public health risk? – POP TIMES UK

An international group of environmental experts assessed the potential impact of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater on public health. Public health strategies to control the COVID-19 pandemic are aimed at reducing the spread of the highly contagious SARS-CoV-2 virus. T…

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Public health strategies to control the COVID-19 pandemic are aimed at reducing the spread of the highly contagious SARS-CoV-2 virus. The main mode of transmission of the virus is by close personal contact through respiratory droplets, aerosols, and mutual surface contact but there may be additional sources of spread.
During the SARS-CoV-1 outbreak in 2003, evidence from a cluster of cases in an apartment block suggested that the virus could spread via contaminated wastewater, either by respira…

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