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Monitoring wastewater for Covid-19

Since their discovery of the novel coronavirus in Swiss wastewater samples in February 2020, teams of researchers in Lausanne, Zurich and Basel have been  mapping sewage using a painstaking process to provide detailed assessments of the virus’s progression.

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