UAE enlists K9 dogs in fight against coronavirus

UAE enlists K9 dogs in fight against coronavirus

DUBAI: The UAE's Ministry of Interior has started enlisting mobile units of K9 sniffer dogs to track possible coronavirus cases, state news agency WAM reported. The units will be working in specific areas and venues during events and competitions to enable organizers and health authorities to curb the spread of COVID-19. The National Emirate Team has worked with the oldest veterinary school in Europe, National Veterinary School of Alfort in France, to set up training workshops for the K9 units, the report added. Gulf News reported that the UAE has been using sniffer dogs at multiple entry points to detect cases of COVID-19 among travelers and that interior officials earlier said that K9 police dogs have been deployed in Abu Dhabi and Sharjah airports and at the Ghuwaifat border point. JERUSALEM: A planned visit by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the United Arab Emirates on Thursday was canceled, Israel's public radio Kan said, citing a source involved in the planning. Neither Israel nor the UAE have formally confirmed that such a visit “” the first by the prime minister to the Gulf power “” was to have taken place, nor that it was being reviewed. Israeli media reported the