{"id":7228,"date":"2024-10-04T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=7228"},"modified":"2024-10-04T18:18:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T22:18:41","slug":"ottawas-wastewater-surveillance-program-extended-for-another-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/ottawas-wastewater-surveillance-program-extended-for-another-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa\u2019s wastewater surveillance program extended for another year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two months after the Ontario government pulled the plug on wastewater surveillance, Ottawa health and research institutions have teamed up to extend the program in the city for a least another year.<\/p>\n<p>Calling it an innovative solution that allowed for better monitoring of COVID-19 in the community, CHEO, the CHEO Research Institute, the University of Ottawa and Ottawa Public Health announced an extension of wastewater surveillance on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to monitoring COVID-19 levels in wastewater, the program monitors levels of influenza, RSV and mpox in Ottawa. The program has been extended until September 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two months after the Ontario government pulled the plug on wastewater surveillance, Ottawa health and research institutions have teamed up to extend the program in the city for a least another year.<\/p>\n<p>Calling it an innovative solution that allowed for better monitoring of COVID-19 in the community, CHEO, the CHEO Research Institute, the University of Ottawa and Ottawa Public Health announced an extension of wastewater surveillance on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to monitoring COVID-19 levels in wastewater, the program monitors levels of influenza, RSV and mpox in Ottawa. The program has been extended until September 2025.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/ottawas-wastewater-surveillance-program-extended-for-another-year\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ottawa\u2019s wastewater surveillance program extended for another year<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[96,449,450,18,77,176,119,1079,137,177,249,258,8,80,49,14,356,12,354,355],"class_list":["post-7228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-cheo","tag-childrens-hospital-of-eastern-ontario","tag-covid-19","tag-influenza","tag-mpox","tag-ontario","tag-ontario-government","tag-ottawa","tag-ottawa-public-health","tag-ottawa-gatineau","tag-public-health-agency-of-canada","tag-research","tag-respiratory-syncytial-virus","tag-rsv","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-university-of-ottawa","tag-wastewater","tag-wastewater-monitoring","tag-wastewater-surveillance-initiative","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7229,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7228\/revisions\/7229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}