Dogs are being trained to detect coronavirus in passengers arriving at UK airports. Canines at the Medical Detection Dogs charity have previously been used to sniff out cancer and malaria.
The organisation’s founder believes the animals could detect Covid-19 in asymptomatic travellers arriving when lockdown measures are relaxed with “flights coming in from other parts of the world”.
There is no sign, yet, of the UK's lockdown being eased, although restrictions are beginning to be lifted in other European countries including Italy, Germany and Spain, where the number of coronavirus infections and deaths have peaked and fallen.
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