Health
Victoria keeps finding COVID-19 in its wastewater. What’s going on? – The Age
Victoria has detected COVID-19 in wastewater at least 13 times in the past month despite there not having been a single case of coronavirus in the community for…
It does not produce any false positive results at all. When we detect the virus in a sample, it means someone in a catchment is shedding.
Our point is better safe than sorry. If there is an outbreak, everything shuts down and we are losing a lot of money, our job is down the drain. We are extra careful and take it as a precaution.
People who are infected with COVID-19 shed microscopic droplets containing the viruss genetic material. Fragments of SARS-CoV-2s genetic code end up in wastewater when…
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