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COVID wastewater testing expands to the Interior

February 16, 2023

Now that official testing for COVID is much less common, testing sewage for the virus gives officials another way to track the disease. In B.C. the program only expanded to the Interior last fall. Reporter Megan Turcato took a tour of Kelowna's wastewater treatment plant to find out more about how that sampling is done and what health officials are learning from the results.

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