Because Covid-19 can be found in stool, even from people without symptoms, researchers are testing wastewater to monitor the virus.

The most frequent violations were failure to submit a social distancing protocol to health officials and failures to post required signage.

On Tuesday, the county saw its highest single-day case count with 512 new Covid-19 infections, as well as a record number of hospitalizations.

The county’s Business Compliance Unit will focus on social distancing protocols and capacity limitations required by the public health order.

Santa Clara County on Sunday reported 358 new diagnoses—a single-day case count second only to the record 385 tallied on July 15.

County Environmental Health Director Michael Balliet leads the fledgling unit, which has already starting bringing scofflaws in line.