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It is a modern mechanism and supported by the scientific community, which would allow to locate coronavirus remains and activate the health response immediately.

It would include the implementation of continuous analyzes and the protocol for this purpose that has already been carried out in other Spanish cities.Prevention and a quick reaction are the most effective tools.

The wastewater analysis alerts of new cases weeks in advance.

Those infected also expel remnants of the virus through their stools, which researchers have confirmed contain remnants of the virus, even weeks after they have recovered.The president of the Popular Party and spokesman of the PP in the city of Lorca, Fulgencio Gil, has proposed this morning that the City Council, through the public-private company of mixed capital Aguas de Lorca, immediately activate a new protocol detection of coronavirus remains in the municipal wastewater.

It is a tool that has proven to be very useful, since it allows the presence of this virus to be identified up to 41 days before the first officially diagnosed case spreads, as it has happened in some Spanish cities.Fulgencio Gil has requested that Aguas de Lorca take advantage of the technological, scientific and monitoring resources available to it thanks to the investments that have been developed over the last years, for the early detection of possible outbreaks of coronavirus.

At this point we are all fully aware that the ability to prevent and anticipate against COVID-19 is absolutely decisive, and we Lorca have a mechanism that can contribute to a fight in which we are at stake.We consider it necessary to carry out continuous monitoring by Aguas de Lorca, which includes a periodic analysis of wastewater that expressly contemplates the search for coronavirus remains in the wastewater generated by all citizens.

This task would also entail the establishment of the pertinent scientific monitoring protocol, which we propose to activate in the coming days and be maintained thereafter.The proposal that we are transferring today from the Popular Party from a totally constructive plan, would allow all Lorca to have an effective tool for rapid detection of COVID-19, and would provide us with an extra dose of security to face the epidemic that caused so much damage.

and pain it has caused in our country.

This is a mechanism that would also provide updated and accurate information to health authorities.

It is evident that to face the recovery of normality with guarantee we all have to do our part, so the implementation of these continuous analyzes, as well as other mechanisms considered appropriate to implement, is pure common sense.We must remember that it has been precisely a study carried out by the Entity of Sanitation and Wastewater Treatment of Murcia, in collaboration with the CSIC and the University of Valencia, which has shown that the virus was in Lorca, and appeared in wastewater, up to 16 days before the health authorities confirm the first contagion.

The waters that arrive at the wastewater treatment stations contain virus RNA, but those that are purified are clean.The effectiveness of this mechanism has the support, for example, of the Spanish Society of Virology, whose president, Albert Bosch, has stated a few days ago that this analysis system allows literally "much anticipation of the presence of the virus in the population" and "leaves a margin of time to act immediately." This type of analysis is routinely performed in many countries to monitor the presence in the population of both other viruses and multiple bacteria.Fulgencio Gil has claimed that, in line with what the scientists themselves have pointed out, Aguas de Lorca activates as soon as possible a strategic and rigorous supervision, to equip us with a new resource that is so practical and effective under the current circumstances.

Source: PP Lorca