Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) likely emerged from a
zoonotic spill-over event and has led to a global pandemic. The public health response has
been predominantly informed by surveillance of symptomatic individuals and contact tracing,
with quarantine, and other preventive measures have then been applied to mitigate further
spread. Non-traditional methods of surveillance such as genomic epidemiology and
wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) have also been leveraged during this pandemic …