Well, doggone it if the best Covid testing lab hasn’t got four legs

These canny canines find the disease five days before people get any clinical symptoms, it is claimed

24 September 2020 - 19:12 By Anne Kauranen

Dogs trained to detect the novel coronavirus began sniffing passenger samples at Finland’s Helsinki-Vantaa airport this week, authorities said, in a pilot project running alongside more usual testing at the airport...

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