Trained dogs can sniff out coronavirus with up to 94% accuracy – study

“So this gives us real hope and really suggests that dogs are able to detect different variants of Covid.”

The dogs were able to sniff out samples from people who were infected with coronavirus but were asymptomatic (Neil Pollock/MDD/PA)

Covid-19 infection has a distinct smell that can be detected by specially trained dogs with up to 94% accuracy, UK research suggests.

The findings, which have not yet been peer-reviewed, are based on six dogs who tested more than 3,500 odour samples donated by the public and NHS staff.