Detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in Medical Wastewater in Wuhan During the COVID-19 Outbreak

Dear Editor,The outbreak of 2019 novel coronavirus disease （COVID-19）,caused by the infection of SARS-Co V-2, was first reported in Wuhan, China （Kong et al. 2020a, 2020b） and has become the most serious public health emergency in the century （Matsuzaki et al. 2010; World Health Organization 2020）. The fecal shedding of SARS-Co V-2 has been proven by the viral strains isolated from COVID-19 patient’s stool specimens （Wang et al. 2020）. It proposed the possibility that contaminated waste water and fomites might be involved in disease transmission（Tang et al. 2020）, especially at the healthcare facilities with large number of patients.