Wastewater monitoring SARS Linz 2024 -2026

Duration:
 08/2024 - 07/2026

Financing:

Linz AG

Contact Person:
Julia Vierheilig

Co-worker:
Gabriela Eder, Valerie Meran

Project partner:
Regionalkläranlage Linz-Asten

Brief information on the project

The project SARS Linz 2024 - 2026 is a successor project to SARS Linz 2022/2023 and SARS Linz 2023/2024 and also deals with the monitoring of the wastewater for pathogenic viruses in Linz. The focus of the analysis is the respiratory virus SARS-CoV-2. On a weekly basis, samples are taken from the inflow of the Linz-Asten regional wastewater treatment plant and sent to TU Wien, where they are processed and subsequently analysed using RT-dPCR. The information exchange happens via weekly reports, which are sent to the regional wastewater treatment plant Linz-Asten. To provide a comprehensive picture of the SARS-CoV-2 infection dynamics, the reports include not only internal data from the measurements by TU Wien but also data from the national wastewater monitoring.