Imprints of lockdown and treatment processes on the wastewater surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 : a curious case of fourteen plants in Northern India

• Main Authors: Arora, Sudipti, Nag, Aditi, Rajpal, Ankur, Tyagi, Vinay Kumar, Tiwari, Satya Brat, Sethi, Jasmine, Sutaria, Devanshi, Rajvanshi, Jayana, Saxena, Sonika, Shrivastava, Sandeep Kumar, Srivastava, Vaibhav, Gupta, Akhilendra Bhushan, Kazmi, Absar Ahmed, Kumar, Manish
• Other Authors: School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Engineering::Civil engineering; Aerobic Wastewater Treatment; COVID-19
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/153885
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The present study investigated the detection of severe acute respiratory syndrome– coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) genomes at each treatment stage of 14 aerobic wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) serving the major municipalities in two states of Rajasthan and Uttarakhand in Northern India. The untreated...