Journal
ONE HEALTH
Volume 10, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.onehlt.2020.100157
Keywords
COVID-19; Virus; PCR; Health Surveillance
Funding
- CNRS
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The evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic can be monitored through the detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in sewage. Here, we measured the amount of SARS-CoV-2 RNA at the inflow point of the main waste water treatment plant (WWTP) of Montpellier, France. We collected samples 4 days before the end of lockdown and up to 70 days post-lockdown. We detected increased amounts of SARS-CoV-2 RNA at the WWTP from mid-June on, whereas the number of new COVID-19 cases in the area started increasing a couple of weeks later. Future epidemiologic investigations shall explain such asynchronous finding.
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