SensNews Aug 2020

Sensor100 August 2020 20 Trained Dogs Can Smell Coronavirus It took only a week of training. Researchers at the University of Veteri- nary Medicine in Hanover, Germany, have found that dogs are able to sniff out the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 with astonishing accuracy. During tests, they found that eight dogs from Germany’s military could correctly identify the presence of the coronavirus 94 percent of the time after only being trained a week, as Bloomberg reports. “We think that this works because the metabolic processes in the body of a diseased patient is completely changed,” Maren von Koeckritz-Blickwede, a professor at the university, said in a video statement post- ed by the university onYouTube.“We think that the dogs are able to detect a specific smell produced” by the metabolic process. Reported by Neoscope 2 8 July Professor ChrisToumazou, Imperial College London, has been awarded a President's Special Award for Pandemic Service by the Royal Academy of Engineering. Identifying peo- ple with COVID-19, especially if they are asymptomatic, has been a major challenge of the pandemic. Imperial College London’s Regius Professor of Engineering Chris Tou- mazou engineered a lab-free COVID-19 test that provides results in under 90 minutes and is already being used on the frontline in a number of NHS hospitals in London. Imperial College News 17 August