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People infected with COVID-19 can shed the virus through their stool, even if they don't have any symptoms. Testing a community's sewage (wastewater) can tell us if COVID-19 is increasing or decreasing in that community. Our scientists have developed a pan-Canadian wastewater network to monitor the spread of COVID-19 in Canada. This is in collaboration with provincial, territorial and municipal governments and academia across Canada. Some communities and local health authorities are collecting wastewater samples for analysis by Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory. Analysis helps detect the virus that causes COVID-19 and variants.

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Name	Format	Description	Link
COVID-19 Wastewater Surveillance Dashboard	HTML		https://health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/wastewater/
COVID-19 Wastewater	CSV		https://health-infobase.canada.ca/src/data/covidLive/wastewater/covid19-eaux-usees.csv
COVID-19 Wastewater Trend	CSV		https://health-infobase.canada.ca/src/data/covidLive/wastewater/covid19-eaux-usees-tendances.csv
COVID-19 Wastewater	CSV		https://health-infobase.canada.ca/src/data/covidLive/wastewater/covid19-wastewater.csv
Data Dictionary	CSV		https://health-infobase.canada.ca/src/data/covidLive/wastewater/covid19-wastewater-data-dictionary-en.csv
COVID-19 Wastewater Trend	CSV		https://health-infobase.canada.ca/src/data/covidLive/wastewater/covid19-wastewater-trend.csv
COVID-19 Wastewater Surveillance Dashboard	HTML		https://sante-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/eaux-usees/
Data Dictionary	CSV		https://sante-infobase.canada.ca/src/data/covidLive/wastewater/covid19-wastewater-data-dictionary-fr.csv
Science of Health blog: Harnessing the power of wastewater testing to detect COVID-19 outbreaks	HTML		https://science.gc.ca/eic/site/063.nsf/eng/98235.html
Science of Health blog: Harnessing the power of wastewater testing to detect COVID-19 outbreaks	HTML		https://science.gc.ca/eic/site/063.nsf/fra/98235.html

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