Meaning of contact tracing | Babel Free

Definitions

The process of identification of persons ("contacts") who may have come into contact with a person carrying an infectious disease.

countable, uncountable

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Examples

“There's a strong case for replacing the present system of anonymous testing with mandatory reporting of new infections, and vigorous contact tracing of sexual and needle-sharing partners.”

“Other health care professionals also may be trained as part of the effort to more than double to 1,500 the number of people conducting interviews and contact tracings on an ongoing basis.”

“New research from RSSB [...] shows that in a typical UK train, you have around a 1-in-11,000 chance of catching COVID-19. This reflects German research by DB which concluded: "To our knowledge, not a single contact tracing has been identified in Germany and Austria as having been triggered by an infection on the train journey."”

“For millions of American lives touched by the coronavirus, it was too late to correct the failure to stand up protocols for masking and social distancing, testing and contact-tracing. But negative consequences of the culture war around the pandemic could still lie ahead, damaging the national vaccination effort.”

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