Virus continues to be detected in county municipal wastewater, but levels are slowly declining consistent with declines in reported case transmission. The CDC contractor Biobot has not as yet provided a weekly update to their variant sequencing data, which stands at 99.8% BA.5 for the week of August 24. See https://biobot.io/data/ NMDOH is currently monitoring SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater samples collected at 11 municipal wastewater treatment plants in New Mexico. Twice weekly samples are collected and sent to the NMDOH state lab in Albuquerque for analysis. These 11 plants, combined with the four other utilities conducting CDC-sponsored wastewater surveillance (Albuquerque, Santa Fe, White Rock, and Los Alamos townsite), serve about 70% of the “sewered” population in the state. See https://cv.nmhealth.org/epidemiology-reports/
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Wastewater Surveillance Continues to Detect SARS-CoV-2 Virus with Only BA.5 Variant Identified
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