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Malachi Stewart, with the Washington D.C. health department, works full-time as a contact tracer for the COVID-19 response. D.C. plans to increase its contract tracing workforce in the near future. Ryan Kellman/NPR hide caption toggle caption Ryan Kellman/NPR States are eager to open up and get people back to work, but how do they do…

By Adam Vaughan Irish Army cadets are being trained to assist with covid-19 contact tracingPAUL FAITH/AFP via Getty Images The UK has announced plans for a large scale contact tracing programme to help the country exit the coronavirus lockdown, with reports that thousands of people are to be recruited. Other countries are already running such…

Governments around the world are proposing contact tracing as a way of limiting the spread of coronavirus after lockdown.Nations are recruiting thousands of people to do the task manually, but smartphones apps that can automate the process will also have a role to play.BBC Click's Chris Fox explains what contact tracing is, and some of…

Governments around the world are proposing contact tracing as a way of limiting the spread of coronavirus after lockdown.Contact tracing can be done from memory, but smartphones apps that can automate the process have also been developed.BBC Click's Chris Fox explains what contact tracing is, and some of the methods that have been proposed.See more…

Published on Apr 22, 2020Test, trace, and treat have become three major words when it comes to the coronavirus pandemic, but when it comes to stopping a second wave of COVID-19 cases, tracing might be the key. But while other countries have aggressively traced new cases, the United States is still behind, even though companies…