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If one of the dogs sits after sniffing a mask at the checkpoint, the next step is for the mask owner to be tested. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]
A sniffer dog, the kind used in detecting drugs, could soon be singling out people with Covid-19.
It is the first time dogs are being used to screen an infectious disease in a pilot project currently underway at the Miami International Airport, USA, where two shepherding dogs have successfully been detecting Covid from smelling face masks.
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