Monitoring of community wastewater for early signalling the spread of COVID-19 in Chennai City

The main objectives of this project are to: (1) Track the SARS-CoV-2 virus in the wastewater in order to have information on the community viral load. This should serve as an early warning system for health surveillance. (2) Check the spread from WWTPs (waste-water treatment plants) and direct discharge points, map the presence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in two locations downstream of Buckingham Canal which meets the Cooum River.