Omicron Variant Discovered In Canadian Waste Water Before South Africa

Gagnon’s team has been testing wastewater from Nova Scotia’s four main treatment plants since December 2020.

Graham Gagnon, Director of the Centre for Water Resource Studies in Nova Scotia, has confirmed that his team “detected Omicron in Nova Scotia wastewater in mid-November, 2021.”

According to  Saskatchewan’s Star-Phoenix, the Omicron virus was in the Canadian province’s wastewater “before it was identified in South Africa.” Readers may recognize that media originally identified South Africa as the original source of the Covid variant.

“Gagnon’s team has been testing wastewater from Nova Scotia’s four main treatment plants since December 2020. They have also been testing wastewater from the student residences at Dalhousie’s campus.”

Wastewater testing for Covid is not limited to Nova Scotia. Casey Hubert, professor of biology at the University of Calgary, told media that “Wastewater really provides that kind of early warning signal that precedes the case counts.”

You can say that again– the warnings having arrived so early that they occurred previous to identification of Omicron in South Africa.

The World Health Organization reported this month that the surge in the Omicron variant in Africa appears to have peaked. The same cannot be said for Canada. In fact, CTV News has informed Canadians that we should prepare for “more worrisome variants” beyond Omicron.

Western News Watch cannot help but notice certain recurring patterns. The original virus came from China. On a per-capita basis, its impact has been far more extreme in Canada than within the source nation. The same applies to the Omicron variant in South Africa.

Logically speaking, one would think that the impact on source nations would supersede that of countries some 10,000 km away. Covid doesn’t work this way. Now, we discover that the latest virus spin-off has been found in our public water system– before it was discovered in the accepted source nation.

“When interpreted properly, and in collaboration with PCR testing, Servos said that wastewater testing can be a useful tool in the short-term and long-term monitoring of the pandemic.”

Thank heavens for that– otherwise Canadians might have cause to worry.

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