Covid-19: screening by sniffer dogs struggles to find a place in France
Audio 02:32
The dog Ginko and his master, the adjutant Clément Levert of the SDIS des Yvelines.
RFI / Pauline Gleize
By: Pauline Gleize Follow
5 mins
The antigenic tests are arriving little by little in France.
The Haute Autorité de santé issued a favorable opinion last week for targeted use.
Other methods of rapidly screening for Covid-19 contamination are being studied.
Publicity
At the Maison Alfort National Veterinary School, near Paris, a team is training dogs.
The idea of the Nosaïs-Covid-19 project emerged as early as last March.
However, in France, the method is struggling to be deployed to the chagrin of the project team.
Report during a training at the veterinary school.
Our selection on the coronavirus
•
Listen to our
Coronavirus Info
column
•
Our
explanations
:
→
What are the persistent symptoms of Covid-19?
→
Young people and Covid-19
: health authorities concerned
→
Immunity to Covid-19 would be short-lived
→
Promising results for the vaccine against the coronavirus
•
How to make a mask and use it well
•
See also the
records
of
RFI Knowledge
on Covid-19
→
Birth of a pandemic
→
Daily proof
→
The history of epidemics
→
Science facing Covid-19
→
The geopolitical consequences
Newsletter
Receive all the international news directly in your mailbox
I subscribe
Follow all the international news by downloading the RFI application
google-play-badge_FR
France
Coronavirus
Health and medicine
On the same subject
Covid-19 in France: a first night under curfew respected in Paris
Covid-19: entry into force of the curfew for 20 million French people
Covid-19: Germany places the French Grand Est region in red