coronavirus has come up with its first positive sample, local health and city officials said.The city and Middlesex-London Health Unit (MLHU) launched the pilot project in July and have been collecting wastewater samples from pollution control plans in the London area since.On Monday, it was announced that wastewater collected on Sept.
6 from the Greenway Wastewater Treatment Plant, which treats some 60 per cent of the city’s wastewater, had found the pilot project’s first positive sample of the virus, officials said.
London joins pilot project testing wastewater for coronavirus The hope of such monitoring, says Dr. Chris Mackie, the region’s medical officer of health, is that identifying positive samples could help the health unit.