A team comprising academics from the University of the Free State (UFS) and private sector laboratory specialists can provide a virus-risk forensic service using sewage samples to monitor Covid-19 hotspots, UFS said in a July 9 statement. Netherlands research agency KWR first demonstrated the potential of wastewater surveillance to identify the total viral load in a defined population in the Netherlands, and a successful proof of concept by a local laboratory was announced on June 10.
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