Dutch Scientists Find a Novel Coronavirus Early-Warning Signal – Bloomberg News

Dutch scientists were able to find the coronavirus in a city’s wastewater before Covid-19 cases were reported, demonstrating a novel early warning system for the pneumonia-causing disease. The so-called SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is often excreted in an infected person’s stool. Although it’s unlikely that sewage will become an important route of transmission, the pathogen’s increasing circulation in communities will … More Dutch Scientists Find a Novel Coronavirus Early-Warning Signal – Bloomberg News

Presence of SARS-Coronavirus-2 in sewage – medRxiv

In the current COVID-19 pandemic, a significant proportion of cases shed SARS-Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) with their faeces. To determine if SARS-CoV-2 is present in sewage during the emergence of COVID-19 in the Netherlands, sewage samples of 7 cities and the airport were tested using RT-PCR against three fragments of the nucleocapsid protein gene (N1-3) and one … More Presence of SARS-Coronavirus-2 in sewage – medRxiv