Get sniffed! German dogs are used to detect Covid-19 in concertgoers

Get sniffed! German dogs are used to detect Covid-19 in concertgoers

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norman lebrecht

September 17, 2021

The Lower Saxony Ministry of Science in Hanover has called in the Bundeswehr to supply dogs that will sniff people for the Coronavirus before letting them in to concert halls, opera houses and other places of entertainment.

Ten specially trained animals have returned a 92 percent efficiency rate in detecting the virus.

They are being tried out in Hanover in the state’s ‘Back to Culture’ initiative.

If successful, this could be a sniff of the future.

 

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