During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Province of Ontario, Canada, launched a wastewater surveillance program to monitor SARS-CoV-2, inspired by the early work and successful forecasts of COVID-19 waves in the city of Ottawa, Ontario. This manuscript presents a dataset from January 1, 2021, to...
"While COVID-19 is still circulating across the country, current disease activity indicators, from daily reported cases to laboratory test positivity, indicated decreasing transmission in many areas," Tam said in a press conference, adding that wastewater data are showing signs of a potential plateau...
The shift away from a large-scale COVID-19 public health response comes at a time when cases are surging across the province and wastewater levels are the highest they have been in more than a year. In Ottawa, there are currently 11 COVID-19 outbreaks...
Wastewater-based epidemiology/wastewater surveillance has been a topic of significant interest over the last year due to its application in SARS-CoV-2 surveillance to track prevalence of COVID-19 in communities. Although SARS-CoV-2 surveillance has been applied in more than 50 countries to date,...
There has been no testing of wastewater for COVID-19 so far in the Interior Health region. But a testing site will be set up within the next few months at an undecided location, according to Natalie Prystajecky, an environmental microbiologist at the BC Centre for Disease Control. The CO...
Tam said that in the last week, case rates, the share of tests coming back positive, and wastewater surveillance are all showing “early indications” that Omicron has peaked nationally. Her comments echoed statements the day before from several provinces, including Alberta, where Premier Jaso...
“There is no doubt that nobody wants to have all these restrictive measures anymore, and Omicron may or may not have put us one step toward that new reality,” Dr. Theresa Tam said Friday during a COVID-19 briefing in Ottawa.
Likewise, laboratory test positivity during the latest 7-day period ending April 10 increased to 19 percent nationally, and community wastewater data continued to signal sharply rising trends in the number of localities across the country, the statement said.■...
COVID spike in Yellowknife wastewater “anticipated” Yellowknife hasn’t seen a rise in severe COVID-19 cases in the last three weeks despite a spike in the viral load in the city’s wastewater.Read more… Ottawa police brace for new convoy protest, ban vehicles from downtown ...
monthly income of fishers increased by 10.76−179.11%, with a mean increase of 90.57%, compared to the period of first COVID-19 wave in India. The present findings can provide an impetus for effective utilization of pen enclosures for income generation and livelihood enhancement of small-sca...