Quebec government says the data can provide early warning of new pandemic waves or the emergence of new variants
Quebec’s Health Department has begun releasing data on the presence of COVID-19 in wastewater.
Quebec has been screening wastewater for COVID-19 in Quebec City and the Montreal area since late March but only began releasing the data today. Dominic Frigon, a McGill University civil engineering professor who helped develop Quebec’s wastewater screening program, says the data can be useful for detecting trends but adds that COVID-19 levels in wastewater don’t directly correlate to case counts.
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