The program was previously limited to just five Lower Mainland water treatment plants.
The B.C. Centre for Disease Control’s wastewater testing program was previously limited to five Lower Mainland water treatment plants, but will now include Victoria, Nanaimo, the Comox Valley, Kelowna, Kamloops and Penticton.
Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said expanding wastewater surveillance provides an additional data source for public health officials to monitor COVID-19 circulation. B.C.’s COVID-19 wastewater surveillance program is part of “pan-Canadian wastewater network” that feeds data into a national program, the BCCDC said.
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