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The dogs will offer an alternative, speedy method to testing for Covid-19, especially when it comes to screening bedridden patients. Photo supplied
Trained dogs prepped to sniff out coronavirus in Bangkok’s communities
Tue, 18 May 2021
Covid-sniffing dogs led by volunteers will soon be screening Bangkok communities, as the capital battles record daily cases in Thailand’s third wave of infections.
Minister of Social Development and Human Security Juti Krairiksh said volunteers were being sent to the sniffer-dog project at Chulalongkorn University’s Faculty of Veterinary Science.
The project team has trained six Labrador retrievers to sniff out Covid-19 in human sweat.
Sniffer dog Sammy takes part in a training to detect the Covid-19 (coronavirus), at K9 Detection center, in Bredene, western Belgium, on March 3, 2021. (Photo by JAMES ARTHUR GEKIERE / BELGA / AFP) / Belgium OUT
BANGKOK (Bernama): The one-year-two-month-old sniffer dog, Bravo is seen wagging its tail as it walked into a room at the Small Animal Hospital Chulalongkorn University where it sniffed at six canisters.
The Labrador Retriever sat down in front of one canister while an officer in Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) suit marked the canister. Bravo had detected the perspiration scent of a Covid-19 patient.
Bravo is one of the six Labrador Retriever trained by Chulalongkorn University’s Faculty of Veterinary Science to detect Covid-19 patients, both symptomatic and asymptomatic, with an accuracy of 94.8 per cent.
17 May 2021 / 15:00 H. Pix for representational purpose only/BERNAMA
BANGKOK: The one-year-two-month-old sniffer dog, Bravo is seen wagging its tail as it walked into a room at the Small Animal Hospital Chulalongkorn University where it sniffed at six canisters.
The Labrador Retriever sat down in front of one canister while an officer in Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) suit marked the canister. Bravo had detected the perspiration scent of a COVID-19 patient.
Bravo is one of the six Labrador Retriever trained by Chulalongkorn University’s Faculty of Veterinary Science to detect COVID-19 patients, both symptomatic and asymptomatic, with an accuracy of 94.8 per cent.
BANGKOK (March 17): Trained by Chulalongkorn University s Faculty of Veterinary Science, six Labrador Retrievers are set to sniff out Covid-19 asymptomatic persons at designated airports and ports in Thailand, with an about 95% accuracy rate.
According to Prof Dr Kaywalee Chatdarong, the faculty s vice dean of the research and innovations section, on the Chula Journal website, the faculty decided to train Labrador Retrievers as they are friendly and have good sense of smell.
Dr Kaywalee, who is the project’s chief, said dogs’ sense of smell is 50 times greater than that of humans, and through the sweat produced by humans, they could sniff out those carrying the virus but showing no symptoms.