AMMAN— The Ministry of Water and Irrigation in partnership
with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) held a
virtual workshop on "surveilling COVID-19 in sewage in Jordan."
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In a statement made by the Ministry on Thursday, they said that
the workshop aimed at providing an overview of the capacity-building program of
central laboratory staff at the Jordan Water Authority that was set up to
monitor and track the Corona virus in sewage.
The program is a part of the USAID-funded water sector
infrastructure project. The ministry stated that the workshop highlighted the
importance of tracking the virus in sewage to determine the areas in Jordan that
are most affected in the epidemic and to track the spread of the virus.
The program will provide early warning of the emergence of a
new wave, in addition to confirming the patterns of laboratory test results, and
providing information to reduce the spread of the virus and help maintain
health and safety in Jordan.
During the workshop, experts from the water sector, representatives
of the Ministry of Health, the National Center for Security and Crisis
Management, donors, universities and stakeholders discussed how to use the
results of the wastewater analysis as supplementary data for laboratory test
results, and how best to establish a system for monitoring and tracking the
virus at the national level.
The workshop included the training of a number of field
technicians, observers and laboratory staff at the Water Authority on health
and safety issues, sampling, analysis, and the development of a road map for
the implementation of a virus monitoring and tracking system in the Ain Ghazal
area.
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