DeepVerge plc announced the successful completion of Phase 3 field trials in which Microtox® PD achieved real-time detection and transmission of data, specific to SARS-CoV-2, in wastewater treatment plants at multiple sites. As a result, its Environmental Health Division ("Modern Water") has entered into a master service agreement with EPS Group to install, calibrate, service and maintain Microtox®PD units which, subject to negotiation with undisclosed parties, have the potential to be installed in multiple European countries. On the 24 September 2020, the Company announced completion of the integration of an Affimer/Aptamer-based real-time SARS-CoV-2 detector and alert system into Modern Water's Microtox water contamination system, now called Microtox® PD, for the detection of the coronavirus in wastewater. Microtox® PD successfully completed initial spike protein testing and validation of SARS-CoV-2 in filtered wastewater and transitioned to the University of Aberdeen for full beta testing of the system using real SARS-CoV-2 virus samples in its containment level 3 laboratory, prior to initiation of the field trials, referred to above.