Ontario pulls plug on COVID-19 wastewater surveillance
Premier Doug Ford's government is scrapping Ontario's program for monitoring the level of COVID-19 in the population through sampling wastewater around the province.
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![Wastewater samples for COVID-19 analysis sit in a row. Wastewater surveillance and analysis has become a key tool in monitoring and measuring the amount of virus in communities throughout the pandemic. Test tubes clustered together.](https://i.cbc.ca/1.6467152.1697061341!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/wastewater-samples.jpg)
Premier Doug Ford's government is scrapping Ontario's program for monitoring the level of COVID-19 in the population through sampling wastewater around the province.