COVID-19 cases in the city.From April 16 to April 20, the presence of RNA load in Saskatoon’s waste water increased by 312 per cent compared to the previous week up to April 15, according to a team of University of Saskatchewan (USask) researchers.
Wastewater samples point to rising COVID-19 variant cases in Saskatoon: professor “This rapid increase in viral RNA load in the waste water is expected to be predictive of a rapid increase in new cases in Saskatoon,” reads a bulletin from USask’s Global Institute for Water Security posted Monday.“The last time viral load in the waste water was comparable to these levels (November 2020), Saskatoon saw case numbers rise to >100 per day in the following week(s).”Because the novel coronavirus can.