Scientists from state-ran UP urged the government to consider adapting a wastewater-based surveillance system during a pandemic or other public-health management in order to enhance data accumulation and enable quicker science-based decisions. Know more:
DAVAO CITY—Scientists from state-ran University of the Philippines urged the government to consider adapting a wastewater-based surveillance system during a pandemic or for other public-health management in order to enhance data accumulation and enable quicker science-based decisions.
While scientists said the genetic materials were not infectious anymore and that more studies should be conducted on other issues surrounding the result, the scientists believed that “there is potential in the conduct of WBE for monitoring public health across the Philippines,” especially during the Covid-19 and other pandemic diseases in the future.
“Danger of reinfection due to wastewater research will not be an issue because the virus is already dead in the water. They can still be detected because of the RNA, but they are no longer infectious,” Otero said.It was during the first year of the pandemic in 2020, when Jaraula began her research on water quality that soon evolved into a multiple work as other scientists and researchers from UP Mindanao and UP Manila joined and formed a collaboration. They included Dr. Lyre Anni Murao, Dr.
While there was an assurance that the SARS Cov-2 virus may not be infectious anymore, further studies may be needed to address some more issues, including the finding that some of RNA materials were the mutations of the virus. “Clinical monitoring, such as RT-PCR [reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction] testing, and contact tracing are limited in the early detection or prediction of community outbreaks and can be logistically demanding and expensive when applied to a large population,” del Mundo said.
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