A video on Indian Army's specialist unit of canines, trained to detect COVID-19 among personnelMeet Casper and Jaya, the two ‘specialist’ military dogs trained to screen samples and detect COVID-19 cases. They are the first two canines trained to detect COVID-19 cases from sweat and urine samples. Since November 2020, Casper and Jaya have been deployed in Chandigarh and Delhi. A dog can screen approximately 100 samples in an hour with a rest period of five minutes after every 15 minutes. According to Lt. Col. Surender Saini, instructor at the Army’s Remount Veterinary Corps (RVC) in Meerut, these dogs can detect COVID-19 with 95% accuracy.

Source: The Hindu February 11, 2021 13:54 UTC