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Ottawa-area scientists now monitoring sewage for coronavirus: ‘Now is the exciting part’
novel coronavirus say they’ve moved past a testing phase and are now sampling to give real data to local health officials.“Now is the exciting part,” says University of Ottawa engineering professor Rob Delatolla. “Now we put it into motion.”“Before, a lot of our efforts were, ‘How do we sample? Where do we sample? How do we do this?’ Those questions, I think, have been answered, and we’re saying, ‘Now, let’s do this.’”Both plants are now being sampled weekly, Delatolla says, with plans to ramp that up to twice a week.