Bengaluru mayor advocates smell tests for people to enter malls

Bengaluru Mayor Goutham Kumar believes that a smell check can help detect a person who might be infected with the deadly novel coronavirus. Loss of sense of smell should be checked along with temperature check before people are allowed to enter a shopping mall, Bengaluru Mayor Goutham Kumar has said. The Bengaluru Mayor said on Tuesday that along with thermal screening, he would recommend that people are checked for sense of smell before they are allowed entry into a mall. “If a person can't smell things, he/she might not be allowed inside the mall,” the Bengaluru Mayor Goutham Kumar said, and added that he will also write to Karnataka Chief Minister for the same.