Less presence of Covid in the wastewater of the Community of Madrid

The Ministry of the Environment, Housing and Agriculture of the Community of Madrid, the body on which the public company Canal de Isabel II depends, explained this Wednesday that

of the region, which will predictably translate into a downward trend in the incidence of the virus in the coming days.

Data from the Canal de Isabel II Watch System point to a decrease in the genomic units of coronaviruses detected in their analyses, which also show that the peak in viral load was reached between

.

Studies of the presence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA have allowed the regional government, since this tool began to work in July 2020, to anticipate

the health data of registered hospital and ICU admissions.

Vigía is the largest tracking, monitoring and early warning system for Covid in wastewater developed in Spain, both due to

and the number of citizens it serves.

In the case of the Community of Madrid, the project covers the 179 municipalities of the region,

. Every week, and by taking samples from wells and treatment plants, Canal de Isabel II tracks 100% of the population.

Since its launch,

have been carried out , the statistics of which have been made available to the health authorities to foresee the evolution of all the waves of the pandemic.

This tool offers early information that allows

.

Canal de Isabel II has made a freely accessible interactive map available to citizens, where they can consult the trend in each area, the date of the last validated analysis, an indicator of the presence of the virus and a comparative value of the latest data with respect to to the previous ones at the same point.

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