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‘The World Health Organisation is clear there is currently no evidence coronavirus has been transmitted via sewerage systems.’If someone is infected with the virus, it can take between five and 11 days for the characteristic symptoms of fever and a persistent cough to show.
Monitoring the virus through sewage is known as wastewater-based epidemiology . The virus doesn’t readily spread through waste water systems so scientists cannot catch it from samples Scientists from the Netherlands also alerted that sewage could provide an early warning or tracking system of SARS-CoV-2, as remnants of the virus are passed into the system from human waste.
They found that even when there were few people with reported cases of the deadly coronavirus in the country, traces of it were still present in the sewers.
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