'Any breed could do it': dogs might be a Covid tester's best friend
by Nicola Davis Science correspondent from Science | The Guardian on (#58JA8)
Researchers around the world are training canines to sniff out the virus - could they be deployed for mass testing?
It is simple and pain-free, could be used to test for coronavirus in care homes, airports and schools, and might just be more realistic than the UK government's 100bn Operation Moonshoot" mass screening plan. Its name? Fido.
Around the world - from the UK to Finland, Spain, Brazil, Lebanon and Australia - teams of researchers are training dogs to sniff out Covid-19. And some say the idea of training hundreds of thousands of canine noses to check for coronavirus is not as far-fetched as it may sound.
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