VIENNA—Austria’s army has successfully trained two dogs to sniff out COVID-19, it said on Tuesday, adding to a mass of evidence that dogs can be deployed to identify carriers of the virus. Trials across the world from Thailand to Britain have found dogs can use their powerful sense of smell to detect the coronavirus with a high degree of accuracy, suggesting they could be regularly deployed as an additional line of safety at large events and border entry points. Airports in Finland began deploying dogs to screen arrivals for COVID-19 last year. Austrian authorities have now fully trained two dogs, a Belgian Shepherd, and a Rottweiler, to detect the scent of COVID-19 after sniffing more than 3,000 samples including from used face masks, with a success rate “far above 80 percent,” Defence Minister Klaudia Tanner said. “We have long known that our service dogs can sniff out various materials … …
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