Untap

Highlights ⭐

• It works: Wastewater surveillance is used to detect infectious diseases, to understand community prevalence and to identify rising and falling case rates. Using PCR technology, wastewater surveillance can achieve 96% positive detection rates (sensitive) and 100% negative detection rates (specific). Unlike blood or saliva tests, where individuals must give time and submit to invasive testing procedures, wastewater monitoring is 100% passive, and the data is already anonymised.
• It matters: It is estimated that 25% of all viral transmission occurs in the workplace. By the time Covid-19 is detected in one symptomatic individual, it is often widespread with multiple asymptomatic carriers. Untap's early warning system can detect the presence of carriers before symptoms present and in asymptomatic carriers.
• Patent-pending tech: Untap's patent pending, automated and real-time wastewater surveillance system can detect viruses, such as Covid-19, to monitor community prevalence and identify case rates without the need for individual testing. The technology is able to detect a single infected person amongst 10,000 that are healthy and can monitor a whole community for diseases using one test while ensuring 100% participation.