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>> reporter: and, dr. blackstock, there's a new study that canines can sniff out covid with 94% accuracy. the hope is they can detect covid in mass gatherings. what do you make of this new information. >> while it sounds promising, it really is, it was a small pilot study including about eight dogs. they analyze the saliva and secretions of patients, so they're patients who are really, really ill. what we need to know about is the asymptomatic carriers. we need more studies that include those patient snas. >> okay. so adopt more dogs. we appreciate it. dr. blackstock, enjoy the rest of your sa...

Hold. but it isn'tjust people who have felt the impact. in bolivia, stray animals have suffered because of covid—19, but one that is determined to do something about that, as tim allman explains. it's pretty obvious that fernando loves his 4—legged friends. so much so he spends most of his time travelling around la paz looking out for them. in his brightly—coloured van, he and his volunteers try to deal with an ever—growing problem. translation: more or less, 2,000 dogs are helped daily in different neighbourhoods and more than 1.8 million rations have been given out during the quarant...

Rations have been given out during the quarantine. it can be done. reach your hand out a little and ask for help and listen to the one above. the authorities estimate there are nearly 800,000 stray dogs in bolivia. fernando helps as many of them in bolivia as he can, promoting adoption, sterilisation and education. but the most important thing — giving the animals something to eat. translation: i had food from three restaurants and gave them scraps. and with the quarantine, the volume of abandoned dogs increased by 10,000%, so one bag wasn't enough, we had to carry three, four, five, six lar...

Fernando helps as many stray dogsin fernando helps as many stray dogs in bolivia as he can, promoting adoption, sterilisation and education. but the most important thing, giving the animals something to eat. translation: i had food from three restaurants and gave them scraps. and with the quarantine, the volume of abandoned dogs increased by 10,000%, so one bag wasn't enough, we had to carry 3—6 large bags a day to feed the stray dogs. this is a day and night operation. and fernando is not a man to show discrimination, he'll even help the odd stray cat. tim allman, bbc news. a reminder of ou...

Taking place on the first of june again. that's when the next round will set up. in about six weeks time, there's going to be another deadline by which the eu and uk will have to agree whether to extend the deadline. both sides yet again, i know we have heard it before are saying we could end up with another no deal by the end of next year. >> my goodness, nina del santos, thank you. could dogs sniff out coronavirus? british researchers suspect the dogs you see here just might be able to. trials are set to begin in london to find out whether dogs can detect the coronavirus in people even bef...