Resort on Spain's Costa Blanca goes to waste over Covid-19 tracking

TORREVIEJA is to follow other parts of Spain in monitoring the city´s sewage to spot any trends involving the coronavirus.

Mayor Eduardo Dolón said that the monitoring across the Costa Blanca resort would allow the chance to predict a spike in COVID-19 cases.

Dolón commented: “This innovative measure will help to make the Torrevieja area as safe as possible and will flag-up the likelihood of an outbreak.”

The local water company, Agamed, has set up sampling points across its network and laboratory testing would be completed within two days.

The results would then be sent to Torrevieja council for any appropriate action to be taken.

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Alex Trelinski

Alex worked for 30 years for the BBC as a presenter, producer and manager. He covered a variety of areas specialising in sport, news and politics. After moving to the Costa Blanca over a decade ago, he edited a newspaper for 5 years and worked on local radio.