City of Calgary is teaming up with the University of Calgary and Alberta Health Services to test the city’s wastewater for early signs of COVID-19.Researchers will be analyzing wastewater from local treatment plants as well as samples from within the wastewater collection system to find areas where active cases of COVID-19 are beginning to appear.
Alberta Health releases more detailed guidance on cohorts, how to form them In a Friday news release from the U of C, Dr. Casey Hubert said detecting clusters of COVID-19 infection in the population is critical to avoid future outbreaks.“Our objective is to identify hot spots by looking for high concentrations of traces of the virus in wastewater in neighbourhoods,” Hubert said. “Results will be.