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Lifting of travel restrictions brings additional noise in COVID-19 surveillance through wastewater-based epidemiology in post-pandemic period

, the reported case numbers were impacted by many factors, including the variations of international passengers, test accessibility, Omicron prevalence, ratio of population aged between 18 and 65, minority vulnerability, and healthcare system. This highlights the importance of demographics, infection testing, variants and socioeconomic status on the accuracy and implication of WBE to monitor COVID-19 infection status in post-pandemic era. Our findings facilitate the public health authorities to dynamically adjust their WBE-based tools/strategies to the local contexts to achieve optimal community surveillance.

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