ArticleThe Science of the total environment2020
Snowballing transmission of COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) through wastewater: Any sustainable preventive measures to curtail the scourge in low-income countries?
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- Environment and COVID-19 incidence: A critical review.Journal of environmental sciences (China) · 2023Review
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- The Impact of COVID-19 on the Sustainable Development Goals: Achievements and Expectations.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- Centralized and decentralized wastewater-based epidemiology to infer COVID-19 transmission - A brief review.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2022Review
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- Toward smart diagnosis of pandemic infectious diseases using wastewater-based epidemiology.Trends in analytical chemistry : TRAC · 2022Review
- Bayesian spatial modeling of COVID-19 case-fatality rate inequalities.Spatial and spatio-temporal epidemiology · 2022Article
- A review on the contamination of SARS-CoV-2 in water bodies: Transmission route, virus recovery and recent biosensor detection techniques.Sensing and Bio-Sensing Research · 2022Article
- Wastewater, waste, and water-based epidemiology (WWW-BE): A novel hypothesis and decision-support tool to unravel COVID-19 in low-income settings?The Science of the total environment · 2022Review
- Occurrence, transformation, bioaccumulation, risk and analysis of pharmaceutical and personal care products from wastewater: a review.Environmental chemistry letters · 2022Review
- Graphene-Based Technologies for Tackling COVID-19 and Future Pandemics.Advanced functional materials · 2021Article
- Diagnosis of COVID-19, vitality of emerging technologies and preventive measures.Chemical engineering journal (Lausanne, Switzerland : 1996) · 2021Article
- The impact of coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) in water: potential risks.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2021Review
- Challenges to detect SARS-CoV-2 on environmental media, the need and strategies to implement the detection methodologies in wastewaters.Journal of environmental chemical engineering · 2021Review
- Mathematical modeling based on RT-qPCR analysis of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater as a tool for epidemiology.Scientific reports · 2021Article
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Abstract
In this communication, we proposed sustainable preventive measures that may be adopted by the low-income countries to forestall the potential outbreak and transmission of COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) through wastewater. Most low-income countries have poor sanitation and wastewater management policies, which create potential risks of COVID 19 spread. Hence, the proposed measures include decentralization of wastewater treatment facilities, community-wide monitoring and testing of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater samples, improved sanitation, developing point-of-use devices for wastewater decontamination, and more focused policy interventions. Therefore, this paper adds useful insights into the monitoring and management of ongoing COVID-19 outbreak in low-income countries.
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