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SANTIAGO: Chilean police are education sniffer dogs to trip into coronavirus in people’s sweat at an early stage, after an essay in the UK showed encouraging results.
Four dogs were chosen for initial education, a group of labradors and golden dog dogs who play with green “biodetector” jackets for their task. They are trained in the specialized education base of the Carabinieri of Chile in the capital Santiago.
Sniffer dogs are more productive known to stumble upon drugs, explosives and people, but have also been trained in the past to trip into other diseases, adding malaria, cancer and Parkinson’s disease.
Lieutenant Colonel Cristian Acevedo Yáñez, head of the specialized police education school, said the dogs had more than 3 million olfactory receptors, more than 50 times those of humans, and were preferably placed to help fight the coronavirus.
He said dogs can play a key role as Chile seeks to reopen its schools and department stores and bring others back to work.
“The role of the police is to stumble upon our onion functions in this ‘new normal’,” he said. “The concept is that our dogs would be in busy places like schools, bus stations and airports, and could trip over with other people on an early level of the disease, so they could isolate them and perform the right PCR test, thus avoiding mass contagion,” he said.
“Essentially, what those dogs, 4 at the beginning, and their guides, are going to do is save lives.”
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