The Record. University of Waterloo surveillance team seeing steady rise in BA.2 version of COVID-19 since early March. April 1, 2022.
On campus sampling for COVID-19 in wastewater has shown declines in the amount of COVID in the sewers of the on-campus residences. Click here to read the full article by Megan Lambe in the UW Daily Bulletin.
Use of wastewater-based surveillance of COVID-19 has become widespread around the globe. Professor Mark Servos explains the process and how wastewater data is being used by Public Health Units to inform the pandemic response. Follow the link here.
Listen to a podcast with Prof. Mark Servos talking about his team's experience with wastewater survielance as a way to monitor SARS-CoV-2 to support the pulic health response to the pandemic. Listen to the podcast here.
CBC News., Jackie Sharkey. Wastewater testing shows COVID-19 may be 'starting to plateau' in Kitchener and Cambridge: Similar plateau observed across Ontario wastewater monitoring projects, says monitor. January 14, 2022. Link
Wastewater monitoring works seperately from clinical testing but confirms what the public health have been saying: 80% of people with COVID-19 have the Omicron variant. Click here to read the article in Cambridge Today by Germain Ma.
COVID-19 pandemic’s biggest peak yet expected this month: Waterloo Region’s top doctor warns Omicron variant spreading exponentially in community. View the full story by Johanna Weidner in The Record.
The latest reports looking at COVID-19 in wastewater show how our work can be a useful tool since PCR testing is being limited in some jurisdictions. Click here to read the full story by Melissa Couto Zuber on CTV news.
There is the potential to find the Omicron covid-19 mutation in Mississauga, Brampton and Caledon wastewater. Confirmation is still pending to determine if Omicron is actually detected. View the full story by Sabrina Gamrot from the Brampton Guardian.