Canine mobile unit helps detect Covid-19 in Thailand

Bangkok, Jun 17 (EFE).- A mobile unit made up of six dogs has helped inspect some 2,000 samples to detect Covid-19 in Thailand after being trained for months to help in the fight against the pandemic.

The six Labrador retrievers, trained by researchers at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, are capable of detecting asymptomatic or symptomatic Covid-19 patients through their smell with an accuracy of up to 95 percent, the educational center said in a statement.

The unit, currently in Bangkok, began to be used in March to detect infections in the offices of American company Chevron Thailand, which has collaborated in the project, and in the Department of Disease Control in Songkhla, in the south of the country.

These trained animals are capable of inspecting between 600 and 1,000 samples per day, which they can sniff in a special device that prevents them from being…