Meaning of contact tracing | Babel Free

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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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“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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