ADB, Emory University, Manila Water start Phase 1 of WBE project in Metro Manila

The Asian Development Bank (ADB), Emory University-Center for Global Safe Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene, and Manila Water have started the implementation of full-scale Wastewater-based Epidemiology (WBE) for SARS-CoV-2 surveillance in Metro Manila.

This initiative is being conducted under the ADB’s Accelerating Sanitation for All in Asia and the Pacific program.

Representatives from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia led by Dr. Pengbo Liu, Associate Research Professor from the Emory University-Rollins School of Public Health, returned to Manila to lead the implementation of the WBE surveillance Phase 1 using the Manila Water’s molecular laboratory located inside the Ilugin Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) in Pasig City

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