INSACOG testing sewage water samples across 55 sites to detect Sars-CoV-2

'This is called environmental surveillance, and India has done this during the polio campaign,' said N K Arora, co-chair, INSACOG

With cases of symptomatic Covid-19 disease on the decline, the Indian Sars-CoV-2 Genomic Consortium (INSACOG) has started surveillance of sewage water samples across 55 sites to detect presence of the Sars-CoV-2 virus. INSACOG also clarified that so far no confirmed case of XE variant has been detected in India.

“This is called environmental surveillance, and India has done this during the polio campaign. Now, the learnings from the polio drive are being used to pick up the Sars-CoV-2 virus from sewage water samples,” said N K Arora, co-chair, INSACOG. He added that very few countries in the world have the technology