Farmington’s wastewater screened for COVID-19 fragments
The UMaine System s monitoring program includes the UMF campus.
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Students walk this week beside Mantor Library at the University of Maine at Farmington. The spring semester, which began Monday, will see residents on campus tested weekly for COVID-19. Wastewater samples from the town’s sewer plant are being tested for virus fragments at the University of Maine’s laboratory in Orono.
Andrea Swiedom/Franklin Journal
FARMINGTON University of Maine at Farmington students completed their first week of the spring semester, which began Monday, but coronavirus testing began weeks prior.
This is the third week UMF has sent wastewater samples from the Farmington Sewer Plant to the University of Maine System’s laboratory in Orono for detecting traces of SARS-CoV-2, or the coronavirus termed COVID-19.