In Berchtesgadener Land, researchers and authorities want to develop an early warning system for the course of the pandemic.
Corona had hit the region hard.
The corona virus hit the Berchtesgadener Land hard.
Researchers and authorities now want to install an early warning system.
For this purpose, wastewater samples are to be evaluated.
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Berchtesgaden - In the
Berchtesgadener Land district
on the border with Austria, the Corona * numbers rose massively in October.
The district made headlines across Germany and went into lockdown on October 20.
Exit restrictions also came into force at that time.
Berchtesgaden: Corona viruses in wastewater - researchers and authorities want to install an early warning system
Now
researchers and authorities
in Berchtesgadener Land
want to
install
an
early warning system
for the course of the pandemic
with the analysis of corona viruses * in wastewater
.
For this purpose, samples are to be evaluated in the pilot project at ten measuring points in the district.
The district office announced.
For the first time in Germany, wastewater samples would be analyzed across the board.
By correlating with the number of residents and confirmed corona cases *, they should provide information about the infection process.
Many infected people developed little or no symptoms *.
However, they could
still
pass
the
virus
on to
risk groups
.
Corona early warning system?
Research in the Berchtesgadener Land
Scientists are therefore looking for early warning systems to protect the population.
The aim is to recognize the infection process earlier - and accordingly to be able to react to it earlier.
The Technical University of Munich, together with the Technology Center for Water (TZW) in Karlsruhe and epidemiologists from the Bundeswehr in the Berchtesgadener Land district, are researching such a system.
Viruses were found in
wastewater
many months ago
.
On the basis of corresponding analyzes, researchers * suspected, for example, that the pathogen was circulating in Italy earlier than assumed.
Traces had been discovered in wastewater samples from Milan and Turin, which came from last December.
Video: Corona pandemic: Now comes the monitoring of the wastewater
Coronavirus in Bavaria: "Virus load" in the wastewater allows conclusions to be drawn about Covid infections
In the summer, researchers from Aachen and Frankfurt developed a method for monitoring
corona infections
in wastewater.
The measured "virus load" of a system allows conclusions to be drawn about the number of people infected with Covid-19 in the catchment area, announced the RWTH Aachen at the time.
The sensitivity is sufficient to act as an early warning system to indicate whether the incidence value of 50 corona infections per 100,000 inhabitants will be exceeded.
(kam / dpa) * Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen digital editorial network.
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