The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has developed a technology that can help detect diseases including COVID-19 through testing water samples.
The technology is being rolled out by the CSIR in collaboration with the Emory University at Atlanta in the United States of America.
“Currently, what we are doing also is that now that there is no restrictions, we are now designing the strategy of using the environmental elements,” Prof Mike Yaw Osei-Atweneboana, director CSIR-Water Research Institute told The Asaase Breakfast Show on Thursday (19 May).
“And also waste water to explore early warning sign of COVID and other infectious diseases and this we are just starting and in fact during the COVID time we could just test. Let us say a COVID hospital, if we test for the people or we know the level of infection and then we look at their waste water treatment facility, and we pick waste water sample, we test to see if there is COVID or not,” he told the host Kwaku Nhyira-Addo.
“But in places where there is COVID, when we test their waste water treatment system, we are able to identify that there is COVID. In places where there are no COVID, when we test we don’t have COVID… so if in this your place some people are infected and we got to your treatment water system, we will be able to detect,” he added.
Watch Prof Mike Yaw Osei-Atweneboana in the attached file below:
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