A team of Golden Retrievers and Labradors sit when they smell the virus and get a treat. Sniffer dogs are best-known for finding drugs and explosives but have also previously been trained to detect malaria, cancer and Parkinson's disease. Dogs trained to detect the novel coronavirus have already begun sniffing passenger samples at airports in the United Arab Emirates and Finland. A study recently found dogs can identify infected individuals with 85% to 100% accuracy and rule out infection with 92% to 99% accuracy. Chile has a total of 589,189 confirmed cases and 16,217 deaths from the disease.

Source: bd News24 December 23, 2020 23:03 UTC