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Researchers monitoring wastewater for COVID-19 at Edmonton long-term care facilities
COVID-19 in long-term care facilities.The majority of deaths in the province since the start of the pandemic have been long-term care residents.Dr. Xiaoli Pang, a virologist at Alberta Precision Labs and professor at the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at the University of Alberta, said the research will look at wastewater samples from 10 long-term care facilities in Edmonton.Those infected with COVID-19 shed the virus in their fecal matter.