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Researchers at the University of Ottawa are using the wastewater testing strategy that has helped track the ebbs and flows of COVID-19 and applying it to influenza.
MONTREAL - Quebec's Health Department began releasing data on the presence of COVID-19 in wastewater on Wednesday, a potentially powerful screening tool for detecting trends in the evolution of the pandemic, researchers say, but the data it provides can be imprecise.
The former director is accused stealing more than $183,000 meant to maintain the trail to purchase two motorcycles and a truck for himself, among other things. He sought a trial during a plea hearing.
Fast Facts: The city of Ottawa begins vaccinating residents over the age of 80 in seven high-risk neighbourhoods The more contagious COVID-19 variant has been detected in Ottawa's wastewater for the first time Ottawa inches closer to the "red-control" threshold in Ontario's COVID-19 framework Kingston imposing 10 p.m. last call, no live music at bars for St. Patrick's Day Renfrew County health unit warns patrons at Arnprior bar may have been exposed to COVID-19 COVID-19 by the numbers in Ottawa (Ottawa Public Health data): New COVID-19 cases: 80 new cases on Thursday Total COVID-19...
Article content As soon as news got out, the phone calls and emails began. And then the poop arrived. On Friday morning, the Ottawa lab that has come up with a test to detect the highly contagious COVID variant B117 in wastewater received a courier package — unsolicited — containing sewage samples. The package arrived just hours after the successful test for the B117 variant was mentioned on Twitter by some of Ottawa researchers involved. The samples came from a municipality desperate to find out whether the variant is present there. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try re...