The UJI sets up urban atmospheric measuring stations to analyse the presence of genetic remains of COVID-19



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## The UJI sets up urban atmospheric measuring stations to analyse the presence of genetic remains of COVID-19 The multidisciplinary team led by the GenT programme researcher Juana Mari Delgado-Saborit has had the collaboration of the Castelló de la Plana and Valencia City Councils.

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The research team of the project "Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in atmospheric aerosol samples", led by the researcher of the GenT programme at the Universitat Jaume I Juana Mari Delgado-Saborit, has installed air measuring stations in the Plaza de la Pescadería in Castelló de la Plana and in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento de València that allow scientific staff to analyse the presence of genetic traces of COVID-19 in atmospheric aerosol with the aim of setting up an alert system that will help health authorities to act earlier in the event of possible outbreaks.

The installation has counted on the collaboration of the City Councils of Castelló de la Plana and Valencia, which have facilitated obtaining the permits for setting upt the stations on public roads. The stations, which will be in operation for the next nine months in the nerve centres of both cities with a significant daily traffic of people, will allow the research team to obtain representative samples of the genetic load of the virus. The study is funded by one of the [BBVA Foundation's](https://www.fbbva.es/equipo/deteccion-de-sars-cov-2-en-muestras-de-aerosol-atmosferico/) grants for scientific research teams in SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19.

In order to obtain the warning tool to anticipate possible outbreaks of the disease, the project staff will collect the filters from the meters integrated in the urban stations and subsequently analyse them in the laboratory, in a procedure similar to PCR, to detect the genetic load of SARS-CoV-2. In this way, it will be possible to study the time lag between the incubation of the virus and the peak of infectivity associated with the exhalation of viral particles and the presence of symptoms with the aim of creating an alert network that facilitates the design of emergency plans and preventive action measures.

The research team, made up of the universities of Castellón, Valencia and Elche, the FISABIO Foundation and the Directorate of Climate Change and Environmental Quality of the GVA, is formed by Juana Maria Delgado-Saborit, from the Perinatal Epidemiology, Environmental Health and Clinical Research Group of the UJI; professor Vicente J. Esteve Cano (UJI) and the researchers Ana Esplugues (UV) and Nuria Galindo (UMH) who make up the scientific advisory committee on air quality; the UJI researchers Rosa de Llanos, Manuela Barneo and Paula Carrasco as experts in Microbiology; and the researchers Marisa Reblagliato (UJI), Juan Bautista Bellido (UJI); Maria Luisa Estarlich (UV), Ferran Ballester (UV) and Carmen Iñíguez (UV), who make up the scientific advisory committee on environmental epidemiology.

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