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 data and to the SentiSurv data of phase I (bold orange). In the following, we will also use the terms adjust, calibrate or fit as synonyms for adapt. One state variable in our model is the proportioniof infectious persons. This number cannot be measured directly but we as...
2.5. Collection of epidemiological data and correlation to wastewater viral signal Weekly epidemiological data was obtained from the ICES COVID-19 dashboard (https://www.ices.on.ca/DAS/AHRQ/COVID-19-Dashboard) and the Eastern Ontario Health Unit (EOHU) dashboard (https://eohu.ca/en/covid...
Wastewater surveillance provides crucial COVID data, but also privacy concerns Throughout the pandemic, wastewater surveillance and analysis was a key tool in monitoring and measuring the amount of virus in communities. But some experts caution that the data collected could also lead to privacy concer...
Thus, various researchers across the world employed different approaches aiming towards surveillance and detection of wastewater data to track down its relationship with coronavirus and the number of COVID-19 cases (Chen et al., 2020b). “Wastewater”, or “sewage,” includes water from household...
The correlation was more pronounced in the ascending phase of the outbreak, data was divergent once case numbers plateaued. Wastewater surveillance was found to be effective in predicting the second wave of the outbreak in Hungary. Data indicated that even relatively low frequency (weekly) sampling ...
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...
Age data on all confirmed SARS-CoV-2 cases were provided by the Centre for Health Protection. 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 ...
Major maintenance and construction projects for roads, drainage networks, and wastewater facilities also occur during the summer months (City of Regina, 2021). 2. Methodology 2.1. Data collection and processing About 7.5 years of daily waste disposal records of (i) mixed waste, (ii) C&D waste,...
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...