The monitoring of wastewater for viral RNA will help public health officials and administrators to be aware of trends in the cases of the disease in the area from where the sewage is collected. Wastewater surveillance would be a complementary approach to measure the presence and prevalence of Covid-19.
- There are two projects being supported in this program:-
Establishing sewage surveillance and laboratory testing methods for the environmental surveillance of COVID-19, Phase I,
Organisation: CMC Vellore
This project is developing sewage/ sludge sampling - processing protocols and assays to identify COVID-19 viral RNA fragments to initiate community sewage surveillance by different partners across India.
- Wastewater based epidemiology and screening for COVID-19
Organisation: Birla Institute of Technologyand Sceince, Pilani, is working on wastewater-based epidemiology and screening for COVID-19.