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State Stops Coronavirus Testing At Boston Lab After 383 False Positives Found

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health said Tuesday it started looking at Orig3n's lab in the Seaport in early August.

BOSTON — The state has stopped coronavirus testing at a Boston laboratory after investigators found more than 300 positive tests there were actually negative.

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health said Tuesday it started looking at Orig3n’s lab in the Seaport in early August because of “an unusually high positivity rate of tests” there.

Testing was then stopped at Orig3n on August 8.

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