St. Augustine monitoring wastewater for coronavirus

The city of St. Augustine is monitoring wastewater for the coronavirus. (City of St. Augustine)

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – The city of St. Augustine is monitoring wastewater for the coronavirus.

According to the city, this monitoring is used as an early indicator of a COVID-19 outbreak within the city and will potentially provide an estimate of the number of sick people.

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The city says daily sampling started at the end of April and, moving forward, sampling will be done once or twice per week.