SINGAPORE, June 20 — A pilot surveillance programme which screens wastewater samples to determine the level of community transmission of Covid-19 in Singapore is underway. While further research is being done, the initial pilot study measured the amount of viral material in wastewater taken...
Saturday, 20 Jun 2020 03:06 PM MYT
The tests only detected viral material in the wastewater samples towards the end of March when there was a spike in cases reported in the dormitories. The surveillance programme was first announced by National Development Minister Lawrence Wong during his televised ministerial broadcast earlier this week when he said that the authorities were extracting wastewater from manholes to test for Covid-19.
For example, during the pilot study, a zero reading for the coronavirus after testing samples near dormitories provided “added assurance” that the dormitories where no Covid-19 cases were detected were indeed free from infection.
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