Letter to the Editor | Don’t miss out on your favourite talks

Both Whale Coast Conservation and U3A Overberg are offering their lectures and presentations via Zoom and have a line-up of interesting guest speakers who will be talking on various topics.

• WCC is pleased to announce this week’s talk on Zoom, titled Early Warning: COVID-19 in Waste Water by Dr Anthony Turton on Thursday 14 May at 12:00: South Africa’s main challenge in the time of COVID-19 is that the number of people affected by the virus (as communicated in the media) is not an accurate reflection of the real number of infections as they do not include the number of asymptomatic people. The good news is that we can use sewage to track viral spread, as the (dead) virus is found in human stools in our waste water. So how can sewage be used to detect the virus and what information will it give us? How will such an early warning assist us in coping with this virus? Dr Turton is professor at the University of the Free State and an expert in water systems. Please book for this talk by sending an email to anina. wcc@gmail.com. The link to the Zoom meeting will be sent to you prior to the talk. Everyone can be accommodated, so please spread the word.

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