An Isle of Man Covid report shows the first waste water test results and records five more deaths.
Testing of the Isle of Man's waste water for viruses like Covid could act as an "early warning system", the director of public health has said.
It takes the total number of people who have died with the virus on the island since the start of the pandemic to 98. As the reporting of positive lateral flow test results is now voluntary, those figures were "likely to be an underestimate" of viral spread, theThe first batch of results from the waste water project, which is being run in partnership with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, cover a five-week period between 6 March and 6 April.
Samples are taken four times a week at the island's central sewage treatment works at Meary Veg in Santon and transported to the London centre, where testing for diseases like influenza and norovirus is also carried out.
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