Person testing samples in a lab

Health minister opens new wastewater monitoring lab at Bangor University

Welsh Government Minister for Health and Social Services visited Bangor University to officially open the new wastewater monitoring research facility.

 

Wastewater data was instrumental in helping gain a better understanding of the spread of Covid-19 in Wales. It continues to provide us with key data which allows us to track the virus though our communities while other UK data sources, like the ONS Covid-19 Infection Survey, have been stood down.

I’m really pleased that, through this fantastic new facility and the team here, we can apply what’s been learned to gain priceless insight that will inform how we react to many other communicable diseases now and in the future.

Eluned Morgan MS,  Welsh Government Minister for Health and Social Services

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