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I've been listening to the ABC's coronacast podcast almost every day since it started, and have found it to be an interesting and reliable source of COVID-19 information and advice.
On today's episode they had a guest, Paul Birch from the CSIRO, talking about sewerage testing as a way to detect COVID-19 in the community, which is something some states are now doing with reasonable success.
Towards the end of the interview, Dr Birch mentioned that scientists had taken a sample of the aircraft's waste water at the end of QF112, the recent Qantas repatriation flight from Delhi to Darwin. All the passengers on board had tested negative for COVID-19 three days before the flight, but despite this they picked up fragmants of the virus in the plane's sewerage - indicating that at least 1 passenger likely had COVID-19. Sure enough, all of the passengers were tested again on the first day of quarantine and 5 tested positive.
I just thought it was interesting how they were able to pick this up before even testing the passengers.
Here's the episode - Everything you've wanted to know about sewage testing
On today's episode they had a guest, Paul Birch from the CSIRO, talking about sewerage testing as a way to detect COVID-19 in the community, which is something some states are now doing with reasonable success.
Towards the end of the interview, Dr Birch mentioned that scientists had taken a sample of the aircraft's waste water at the end of QF112, the recent Qantas repatriation flight from Delhi to Darwin. All the passengers on board had tested negative for COVID-19 three days before the flight, but despite this they picked up fragmants of the virus in the plane's sewerage - indicating that at least 1 passenger likely had COVID-19. Sure enough, all of the passengers were tested again on the first day of quarantine and 5 tested positive.
I just thought it was interesting how they were able to pick this up before even testing the passengers.
Here's the episode - Everything you've wanted to know about sewage testing