Reviewing a number of studies in India that found coV2 SARS viral RNA in wastewater, CPCB plans to convene an assembly next week to review covid-19 rules for wastewater treatment plant staff.
“We are already tracking SARS CoV2 in biomedical waste and wastewater. We have recently observed that viral RNA is discovered in wastewater and that there is also a strong option in biomedical waste. However, lately there is no evidence that transmission of the virus occurs through wastewater, however, if this is the case, which we do not yet know, the staff of the remedy plants may be very vulnerable to infections, we have asked the remedy plants to supply all the prevention devices to the staff, ranging from non-public protective devices (PPDs) Fix suits , gloves and face shields to protect them from covid-19,” said TK Joshi, a member of the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) that runs the organization on air pollutants and health.
“We have already issued rules on this and will read whether or not the remedy plants comply with them, especially plants that are in spaces with a lot of covid-19,” Joshi said.
The Indian Medical Research Council (ok ICMR) recently discovered sarS-CoV-2 viral RNA in wastewater samples from Mumbai, the maximum Indian state affected by the covid-19 pandemic.
A review conducted through the ICMR National Institute of Virology, Mumbai Unit and the Division of Epidemiology and Communicable Diseases, New Delhi, took a total of 20 teawater samples from six other Mumbai city departments from 11 to 22 May 2020. A transcription polymerity chain reaction (RT-PCR) control that is used to detect the presence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA.
Viral RNA was detected in sewage samples collected by the ongoing covid-19 pandemic in all six neighborhoods, the authors said.
The study also published in the Indian Journal of Medical Research this week said that detection of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater can also be used to perceive covid-19 epidemiology, for example, a reduction in the concentration or absence of viruses in the past, positive wastewater sampling sites for SARS-CoV-2 would likely involve a successful implementation of covid-19 methods , and possibly also provide evidence of the presence or absence of populations infected with SARS-CoV-2 and confirmation of covid -19 free zones.
Although SARS-CoV-2 is mainly spread through droplets of respiratory secretion, it has also been detected in patients’ stool samples, indicating an active infection of the gastrointestinal tract, the examination was found. in February 2020, raising the option of environmental water monitoring to monitor SARS-CoV-2 activity in swollen areas.
Mint in August 2020 reported that after the environmental monitoring of the World Health Organization (WHO) of the SARS-CoV-2 virus causing covid-19 in wastewater after the presence of non-infectious viral fragments in wastewater in some countries, adding Pakistan, India is also contemplating the adoption of the new surveillance tool to monitor the virus.
The Central Pollution Control Board (CPC) under the Ministry of the Environment has already issued revised rules for the disposal of human waste, adding faecal waste generated through compromised hospitals and quarantine centres, which state that waste must be treated well before disposal.
WHO, in its clinical note last year entitled – State of environmental surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 virus – stated that the detection of non-infectious RNA fragments of SARS-CoV-2 in untreated wastewater and/or sludge has been reported in a number of parameters, such as Milan, Italy; Murcia, Spain; Brisbane, Australia; several sites in the Netherlands; New Haven, Connecticut and east Massachusetts, United States of America; Paris, France; and existing poliovirus surveillance sites throughout Pakistan.
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