Updated: 04/02/20 12:26
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In the Netherlands, the corona virus was discovered in wastewater. Researchers see this discovery as an opportunity for an early warning system.
Munich – The good news in advance: So far, there is no suspicion, that this Corona virus over wastewater could be spread. On the contrary – Dutch scientists may even see one in their discovery chance. Because there is a peculiarity.
Because the corona viruses in the Dutch wastewater Amersfoort city Even before reports of infected people were found, the researchers * hope for a possible one early warning system. Apparently we do Covid-19 excreted via the stool in infected persons.
Coronavirus: early warning system by virus in wastewater
According to media reports, the microbiologist Gertjan Medema and the water research institute shared KWR in Nieuwegeinon Monday, March 30th, with the fact that there is currently no suspicion of the rapid spread of the pathogen in the wastewater. But because the virus spreads so quickly overall, there will probably be a higher volume of wastewater Sars-CoV-2 *
to be possible.
The researchers found the virus on March 5. At this time, there were no reported corona cases in the city, which is around 50 kilometers from Amsterdam. In a published scientific paper, Medema announced that it is very important to collect information about the whereabouts of the virus in wastewater.
Coronavirus: Dutch researchers collect information
It had to be determined whether there was a risk for wastewater workers and “whether the Wastewater monitoring could be used to monitor the circulation * of Sars-CoV-2 in our communities, “said the Chief microbiologist in the paper published before a peer review. The researcher and his colleagues * hope that this will be the case clinical monitoring of patients added can be.
It is not the first time that it is positive messages and Progress * in the Corona crisis gives. Researchers of the University of Lübeck has already made a small breakthrough. You could be one enzyme decrypt, which should be crucial for the multiplication of the novel corona virus.
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