Mumbai: BMC to conduct sewage testing for checking Covid-19 variant
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to collect 1000 sewage water samples for RT-PCR testing to understand Covid-19 variants in the community. Experts said unlike other respiratory viruses, RNA of SARS-CoV-2 and other coronaviruses can be detected in human faeces. Next week, the BMC is all set to test sewage samples from the city’s outfalls and conduct RT-PCR tests...