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...
The wastewater of a rural community of less than 5000 inhabitants in Eastern Ontario (Canada) were sampled in this study between October 2020 and May 2021 (Fig. 1). The rural community is sewered, with the wastewater flowing into the main pumping station located 1.3 km upstream of a wastewa...
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...
This work provides an overview of the different environmental effects of COVID-19 in a distinct approach, considering the different elements of the environment, i.e., air, water resources, wastewater, and solid waste. The work summarizes the literature results for the environmental effects worldwid...
The level of COVID-19 in Eastern Ontario is on the rise. The COVID-19 wastewater viral signal in Ottawa is at record levels. In addition, test per cent positivity across the region is high, according to regional public health units. In recent weeks, the number of COVID-19 positive admi...
Traffic is beginning to return to the downtown core as more Calgarians go back to in-person work, according to new data released by the city.Read more… April 26 COVID spike in Yellowknife wastewater “anticipated” Yellowknife hasn’t seen a rise in severe COVID-19 cases in the last thr...
P-1954. Wastewater-Based Surveillance More Accurately Describes Disease Burden Of COVID-19 In Communities with Less Than 60,000 Inhabitants – An Ontario-W... BACKGROUND. The emergence of COVID-19 in Canada prompted extensive efforts in population-wide surveillance, including wastewater-based survei...
One approach is environmental surveillance. The most well-known incarnation is wastewater surveillance, which rose in prominence following the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic. But the Coronavirus in the Urban Built Environment research team, also known as CUBE, is exploring an alternative—swabbing ...
The landfill is open 7 days per week in summer and 6 days per week in winter (City of Regina, 2020), partly because of a higher amount of yard and C&D wastes during summer months. Major maintenance and construction projects for roads, drainage networks, and wastewater facilities also occur...
Daily per capita 2-day running geometric mean SARS-CoV-2 viral load data (in copies of SARS-CoV-2 RNA l−1) obtained from city-wide COVID-19 wastewater surveillance up to 31 July 2022 were provided by the Hong Kong Environmental Protection Department. The 2022 projected mid-year ...