{"id":9303,"date":"2025-10-17T17:03:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T21:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=9303"},"modified":"2025-10-17T20:56:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T00:56:42","slug":"toronto-to-develop-wastewater-surveillance-program-for-fifa-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/toronto-to-develop-wastewater-surveillance-program-for-fifa-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto to develop wastewater surveillance program for FIFA World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &#8211; Toronto Public Health is developing a wastewater surveillance program to detect any potential spread of diseases during the FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto\u2019s new Medical Officer of Health Dr. Michelle Murti said the pilot will collect sewage samples in areas where fans congregate and test them for infections such as COVID-19, influenza and RSV.<\/p>\n<p>Murti said the public health unit is looking into whether other illnesses, such as measles, could also be monitored in wastewater given the large international audience expected next summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &#8211; Toronto Public Health is developing a wastewater surveillance program to detect any potential spread of diseases during the FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto\u2019s new Medical Officer of Health Dr. Michelle Murti said the pilot will collect sewage samples in areas where fans congregate and test them for infections such as COVID-19, influenza and RSV.<\/p>\n<p>Murti said the public health unit is looking into whether other illnesses, such as measles, could also be monitored in wastewater given the large international audience expected next summer.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/toronto-to-develop-wastewater-surveillance-program-for-fifa-world-cup\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Toronto to develop wastewater surveillance program for FIFA World Cup<\/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":[96,18,1383,388,119,14,133,489,12,354,355],"class_list":["post-9303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-measles","tag-ontario","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-public-health","tag-wastewater","tag-wastewater-monitoring","tag-wastewater-surveillance-initiative","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9303","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=9303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9304,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9303\/revisions\/9304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}