Covid and more: study wastewater to establish measures

“Wastewater can tell a lot about the presence of the Sars-CoV2 virus, especially from there it is possible to intercept the trend of the epidemic curve even 7 days earlier than other surveillance methods, such as the clinical one. This means being able to implement prevention measures well before infections become evident in the population “. So Professor Sandro Binda, of the Department of Biomedical Sciences of the State University of Milan, explains the project that, together with the Mario Negri Institute of Pharmacological Research, they are carrying out on the black waters of Lombardy, before they reach the purifier, since the beginning of the pandemic.