The Austrian army trained successfully two dogs so that they can detect the young by their sense of smell coronavirus was announced on Tuesday, in a confirmation, apparently, of those studies that have already reported that dogs can be used to identify carriers of the virus.
Clinical tests in the whole world -from Thailand to Britain- have found that dogs can use it strong sense of smell to detect the coronavirus with a high degree of accuracy, suggesting that they be used as an additional means of security at mass events and at border crossings, according to Reuters.
Respectively, airports in Finland and Chile began to use already from last year likeable quadrupeds to control their arrivals for Covid-19.
The Austrian authorities, therefore, fully trained two dogs, one Belgian Shepherd and one Rottweiler, in order to detect the odor of Covid-19, after smelling more than 3,000 samples, including used face masks, with a success rate “well over 80%“, Said the Minister of Defense Claudia Tanner.
“We have known for a long time that our dogs can detect different materials by their sense of smell. But what we have achieved here is something very special“, She pointed out during a press conference.
A dog trained in research on other materials needs approx 2 weeks to be able to indicate which samples carry Covid-19 and more three months to be fully trained in it, noted for his part the head of the army dog ​​training center, Colonel Otto Kopic.
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