Sewage testing will provide an essential early warning of new coronavirus outbreaks in Victoria, helping health officials detect hidden infections as case numbers drop and restrictions ease.
Infected people can continue shedding the virus for weeks after they have recovered, meaning Melbourne’s sewage testing results are yet to yield much information of use, because of 620 active cases in Victoria, 595 are in metropolitan Melbourne. "I think it’s an extremely effective method. But it only works if there is nearly no virus," said Associate Professor David Anderson, deputy director of Melbourne’s Burnet Institute.
He said at present the test could only provide a positive or negative result, although there was a lot of work being done to expand the information it could provide, and the existing test would become increasingly useful as coronavirus cases declined.
Shouldn't be hard getting some postive test results from sewage given a paw paw, goat and chicken wings have also tested positive 🙄
Are they going to DNA test turds and track them back to the dunny they came from?
Please send your fecal samples in direct. This will help speed up the process.
This is such BS. Sewage? They can't even trace households yet dumps are traceable to what?
getting desperate to keep those number going how obvious
You do that 🙄
Will sewage testing only shown Covid19 or other coronaviruses too? And is there a urine Covid test instead of the currently used brain poke?
It just smacks of desperation to me. If the virus was truly as bad as we're led to believe you shouldn't have to go hunting for it in the sewerage. GiveDanTheBoot
How do you take the world’s most liveable city, and totally fuck it up? Ask this incompetent government.
The only sewage is what’s coming out of Dan, Sutton & Dr errrr ahhh ummm Cheng‘s mouths
Are there results available for testing already done?
what a load of shit
FOR FUCKS SAKE ENOUGH OF THIS CRAP, THE TESTS DO NOT FIND FRIGGING INFECTIONS