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World in Progress: Dogs to the rescue!

Silke Diettrich/Neil KingFebruary 17, 2021

Instead of probing potentially infectious people with a nasal swab or drawing blood from them, dogs just take a whiff of a bit of urine and then let their handlers know whether the urine sample contains traces of the coronavirus. The dogs are currently being trained at a military camp in the Indian capital, New Delhi.

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