San Salvador.
A group dogs of the Canine Unit of the National Civil Police (PNC) trained in El Salvador for the fast detection, through odor, from individuals symptomatic and asymptomatic possibly affected by coronavirus.
The canines are part of a project called Bunker which was made by the Spanish researcher Jaime Parejo García, which is in the Central American country to the education that the dogs since March 8 last year.
Parejo García explained to the press this Monday during a training sessionor what the press was invited to, that’s the method “100 percent safe” and indicated that there are four dog specimens that are being trained for the “covid arrest”.
In a small room, one by one dogs smell a sample of gauze with a patient’s sweat as part of your education then, thanks to its extraordinary sense of smell, the dog will be able to give its answer to the presence from COVID-19.
The Spanish expert pointed out that the canines will be unfolded and rotated in the Óscar Arnulfo Romero International Airport and in the various land borders out of the country.
The Savior officially collects 67,557 infections from coronavirus SARS-Cov-2, of which 1,692 cases are “active”, 2,078 people have died and 63,787 Salvadorans have been fired.
The Central American country has already surpassed 500,000 vaccines applied against coronavirus, according to data released by health authorities on Sunday.
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According to the government portal covid19.gob.sv, they signed up on Saturday 41,007 vaccines, of which the medical personnel received 854, the teachers 1,275, the soldiers and police officers 2,964 and the general population 35,914.
El Salvador has received vaccines of the pharmaceuticals AstraZeneca, Pfizer and Sinovac, requiring two applications to achieve their highest immunity rates.
According to Health Minister Francisco Alabí, the pharmaceutical companies have pledged to supply 6.7 million doses of the 9 million the country needs to achieve the goal of immunization 4.5 million from people. EFE