Dogs could be used to sniff out Covid cases at mass events this summer, study suggests
dailystar.co.ukDogs could be used to sniff out people with asymptomatic coronavirus at airports and mass events, a study has found.10 canines were trained to smell the virus on sweat, saliva and urine in a German Armed Forces study.The dogs, who sniffed more than 5,000 samples, were able to detect Covid-19 from human urine with 95% accuracy.This fell to 91% when smelling sweat and 82% when smelling saliva.Researchers say dogs could be used to quickly identify people in large groups who are Covid-19 positive.Boris Johnson’s Covid roadmap could allow up to 4,000 people to gather outdoors and up to 1,000 indoors from May 17 at the earliest.This would go up to 10,000 people for mass outdoor seated events such as football matches.Taking part in the study were.
Read more on dailystar.co.uk
