MWA-MIWC Webinar 8: Track Covid-19 Through Sewage Monitoring

Description

With the current testing capacity, testing on clinical samples alone is clearly insufficient to determine the actual scale of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country and we need a different strategy. ALS Malaysia is offering COVID-19 testing services for surfaces, water and air. Various studies have shown that testing for COVID-19 in sewage samples not only has the potential of being an early warning system of the disease, it could also help identifying the area for targeted screening, as well as assessing the effectiveness of the mitigation plans. Join us for this online talk, in which our speaker will cover the concept of wastewater-based epidemiology and how it could be applied to complement the current clinical testing.