A critical review on SARS-CoV-2 infectivity in water and wastewater. What do we know?

A Giacobbo, MAS Rodrigues, JZ Ferreira… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 outbreak circulating the world is far from being controlled, and possible
contamination routes are still being studied. There are no confirmed cases yet, but little is …

Open defecation and squat toilets, an overlooked risk of fecal transmission of COVID-19 and other pathogens in develo** communities

S Sun, J Han - Environmental chemistry letters, 2021 - Springer
The novel coronavirus disease COVID-19 has infected over 46 million people in 219
countries and territories. Following evidence of viral loadings and infectivity of feces of …

Will the COVID-19 pandemic end with the Delta and Omicron variants?

C Wang, J Han - Environmental chemistry letters, 2022 - Springer
Two years after the first known outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the
cumulative number of confirmed cases of infections has exceeded 260 million worldwide …

Refined design of ventilation systems to mitigate infection risk in hospital wards: perspective from ventilation openings setting

C Ren, J Wang, Z Feng, MK Kim, F Haghighat… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
To prevent respiratory infections between patients and medical workers, the transmission
risk of airborne pollutants in hospital wards must be mitigated. The ventilation modes, which …

Coronaviruses and SARS-CoV-2 in sewerage and their removal: step by step in wastewater treatment plants

P Foladori, F Cutrupi, M Cadonna, S Manara - Environmental Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The fate of Coronaviruses (CoVs) and in particular SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater
treatment plants (WWTPs) has not been completely understood yet, but an adequate …

Impacts of COVID-19 on the aquatic environment and implications on aquatic food production

FM Yusoff, AF Abdullah, AZ Aris, WAD Umi - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2), resulted in ecological changes of aquatic ecosystems, affected the aquatic …

Differentiating between the possibility and probability of SARS-CoV-2 transmission associated with wastewater: empirical evidence is needed to substantiate risk

W Ahmed, K Bibby, PM D'Aoust, R Delatolla… - FEMS …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Differentiating between the possibility and probability of SARS-CoV-2 transmission
associated with wastewater: empirical evidence is needed to substantiate risk | FEMS …

[HTML][HTML] Utilization of SARS-CoV-2 wastewater surveillance in Africa—a rapid review

T Dzinamarira, G Murewanhema… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Wastewater-based epidemiology for SARS-CoV-2 RNA detection in wastewater is desirable
for understanding COVID-19 in settings where financial resources and diagnostic facilities …

On the critical role of human feces and public toilets in the transmission of COVID-19: Evidence from China

Q Wang, L Liu - Sustainable cities and society, 2021 - Elsevier
The surprising spread speed of the COVID-19 pandemic creates an urgent need for
investigating the transmission chain or transmission pattern of COVID-19 beyond the …

Potential transmission of SARS-CoV-2 through microplastics in sewage: a wastewater-based epidemiological review

A Reeves, WA Shaikh, S Chakraborty… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
In light of the current COVID-19 pandemic caused by the virus SARS-CoV-2, there is an
urgent need to identify and investigate the various pathways of transmission. In addition to …