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Qatar National Wastewater COVID-19 Monitoring Project
Population-level wastewater program using molecular testing and viral sequencing to estimate infection trends and identify variants and other pathogens.
01 / Project overview
What the record establishes.
- Geographic scope
- Five wastewater treatment plants covering most of Qatar's population; later World Cup surveillance
- Project type
- wastewater pathogen surveillance
- Research domain
- public-health genomics and environmental surveillance
- Years
- 2020–2023
- Lifecycle status
- completed pandemic/World Cup phases
- Status basis
- The national pilot began in September 2020; publications document genomic analysis in 2021 and expanded surveillance around the 2022 FIFA World Cup through January 2023.
- Status evidence date
- 2023-01-01
- Scale
- Five major treatment plants; early genomic analysis of 30 samples from March-April 2021 identified Alpha and Beta; World Cup phase ran October 2022-January 2023.
02 / Organizations and population
Who and what the project connects.
- Lead organizations
- Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute · Hamad Bin Khalifa University
- Partner organizations
- Public Works Authority Ashghal · Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar · Qatar Biomedical Research Institute · Hamad Medical Corporation · Ministry of Public Health
- Organism / population
- SARS-CoV-2 and other enteric/respiratory viruses in wastewater
03 / Data and access
What exists and how it can be reached.
Data types
- wastewater samples
- RT-qPCR
- viral genome sequencing
- variant analysis
- epidemiological modeling
Data access
Aggregate publications; no unified public sequence repository identified.
Identifiers
No public accession or identifier is listed for this record.
04 / Evidence and provenance
Why the record is included.
Inclusion basis
Named national multi-site pathogen-surveillance project with sequencing and multiple deployment phases.
Editorial note
Historical predecessor to the 2025-2027 WATCH One Health platform.
Sources
- primary record source Verified 2026-08-15
- additional record source Verified 2026-08-15
- additional record source Verified 2026-08-15
- additional record source Verified 2026-08-15
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