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UIN 10138

Coronavirus: Dogs

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answeredUnited Kingdom· UK Parliament· EN

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4 June 2021

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10 June 2021 · Answer

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10 June 2021

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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of using trained covid detection dogs to identify covid-19 infections; and if he will urgently set out a timescale for deployment of

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  1. 4 June 2021

    Written question

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of using trained covid detection dogs to identify covid-19 infections; and if he will urgently set out a timescale for deployment of

    Source: Commons

  2. 10 June 2021

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    The Department has been funding a clinical trial investigating whether COVID-19 can be detected by dogs. This work has been undertaken by a coalition including the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the charity Medical Detection Dogs.We ha...

    Source: Written answer

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