Environmental Monitoring For The fight Against COVID-19

While much of the COVID-19 response to date has been focused on human-to-human transmission of the virus, largely unaddressed to date are the ongoing risks of environmental transmission and the role of environmental monitoring to understand the health of both facilities and people.

What is environmental monitoring?

Many will be familiar now with the human testing protocol employed by most countries around the world. Environmental monitoring leverages the same qPCR technology to understand the presence of SARS-CoV-2– the virus that causes COVID-19 – on surfaces, in air, water and wastewater.