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ubiquitous that contact tracers have been unable to reach a fraction of those infected.In Austin, Tex., the story is much the same. Just as it is in North Carolina, where the state’s health secretary recently told state lawmakers that its tracking program was hiring outside workers to keep up with a steady rise in cases,…

Contact tracing is considered a critical tool in the fight to contain coronavirus, but what is it like to do the work?While medical staff are working to save lives from COVID-19, it’s the contact tracers who can actually stop the spread.READ: ‘Answer the phone’: Michigan health officials contacting residents about COVID-19 contactLocal 4 spoke with…

Nathi Mthethwa (Gallo Images) Contact sports in SA are still in limbo over a return to training, prompting criticism of government being inefficient. Yet the delay is technically not a delay as federations' respective submissions of their plans before the sport ministry actually gazetted new relevant directives created the perception that a green light was…

Someone — let’s call her Person A — catches the coronavirus. It’s a Monday. She goes about life, unaware her body is incubating a killer. By perhaps Thursday, she’s contagious. Only that weekend does she come down with a fever and get tested. © Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post Michael Spatz, left, a volunteer with the…

Welcome to the sprint known as contact tracing, the process of reaching potentially exposed people as fast as possible and persuading them to quarantine.The race is key to controlling the pandemic ahead of a vaccine, experts say. But most places across the United States aren’t making public how fast or well they’re running it, leaving…