Labrador retrievers can now detect if a person has coronavirus after being around them for just two seconds.
Professor Kaywalee Chatdarong, of Chulalongkorn University, in Thailand, states that individuals with coronavirus have a distinct smell through their sweat which when permeating, is detected by the dogs.
Researchers believe that dogs will be able to detect the virus, which has killed millions across the globe, more efficiently than the currently imposed temperature checks.
While the animals may not need to sniff people carrying the virus, they will be able to detect it through samples of sweat.
Professor Kaywalee Chatdarong said: "The dogs are different from the usual temperature-screening methods in that they can detect those who may have the virus but are asymptomatic, with no fever."
She went on to add: "The dogs will be able to detect these people, their accuracy rate of detecting patients is 94.8 per cent.
"The next step is we will put them out in the field," said Kaywalee.
"In the future, when we send them to airports or ports, where there is an influx of commuters, they will be much faster and more precise in detecting the virus than temperature checks."
Chatdarong went on to say that within just one minute, they can go through up to 60 samples.
It's believed that they are also able to detect the virus through a volatile organic compound secreted within the sweat of an individual who is asymptomatic.
However, Thailand is not the only country to introduce sniffer dogs to detect the virus, with Finland, Inda and Chilie also exploring the avenue of sniffer dogs.
Currently, sniffer dogs have already been put to work across airports across the world including Helsinki and Dubai, where many Brits flocked to during the third national lockdown.
Last month, a German veterinary clinic claimed that sniffer dogs had been 94 per cent accurate when it came to detecting the killer virus in human saliva.
Holger Volk, head of Hanover's University of Veterinary Medicine said: "We did a study where we had dogs sniffing samples from COVID-positive patients and we can say that they have a 94% probability in our study... that they can sniff them out,
"So dogs can really sniff out people with infections and without infections, as well as asymptomatic and symptomatic COVID patients."
NASCAR has also announced that they had hired dogs from the 360 K0 Group who are located in Alabama and Florida to monitor those who were attending last Sunday's Cup Series race at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
The group will also be continuing to use the dogs on a "trial basis" at the Folds of Honour QuikTrip 500.
