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Middlesex jail uses wastewater testing to detect early virus outbreaks
By Christine Mui Globe Correspondent,Updated May 4, 2021, 6:00 a.m.
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The Middlesex Jail and House of Correction in Billerica has introduced a program to search for traces of COVID-19 in wastewater, the county sheriffâs office announced Monday.
The jail hopes to use wastewater analysis run by Cambridge-based Biobot Analytics to spot signals of outbreaks before symptoms appear and the virus can be detected through the testing of individuals, Middlesex Sheriff Peter J. Koutoujian said.
âWhat Iâm seeing all seems to be weâve got it completely under control. But using Biobot is a method of redundancy, so we can just kind of ensure that what we are seeing is actually occurring,â Koutoujian said in an interview.
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