Based on the amount of coronavirus found in the province’s wastewater, Ontario is witnessing 100,000 to 120,000 new cases of COVID-19 every day. There were 1,074 individuals with COVID-19 in Ontario hospitals as of Wednesday morning, with the load on the healthcare system showing no signs of alleviating anytime soon.
How Is Wastewater Monitored?
The use of wastewater testing to monitor health hazards such as polio, antimicrobial resistance, and illegal drug use in populations has a long history of guiding public health action. It can also be used to identify COVID-19. People infected with the virus may not develop symptoms for up to 14 days, or they may be asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic, which means many infected people may go undiagnosed, unaware that they are possibly spreading the infection to others.
What To Do Now?
While the province believes it can increase resources if necessary, more beds will be useless if hospitals do not have healthy employees to care for them. Its import to make sure that we deliver as many vaccines as possible. We cannot allow these variants to continue to spawn in different parts of the world.