Contact tracing
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In public health, contact tracing is the process of identifying people who may have been exposed to an infected person and subsequent collection of further data to assess transmission. By tracing the
Contact tracing during a cholera outbreak in Bangladesh (2014): FETP investigators interview the mother of an index case patient.
Three ways to sign in for contact tracing during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany
App-based contact tracing during COVID-19.
COVID-19 pandemic
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The global COVID-19 pandemic, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, began with an outbreak in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. It spread to other parts of Asia and then worldwide i
Contact tracing
…goal is identify the exposures associated with the index case and secondary exposures of those contact to halt the cycle of transmission. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the adoption by Japan in early spring 2020 of an approach focusing on backward contact tracing was hailed as successful, and other countries which…
Medical professionals treating a COVID-19 patient in critical condition in an intensive care unit in São Paulo in May 2020
Chinese medics in Huanggang, Hubei, in 2020
Gravediggers bury the body of a man suspected of having died of COVID-19 in the cemetery of Vila Alpina in eastern São Paulo, 3 April 2020.
The deceased in a refrigerated "mobile morgue" outside a hospital in Hackensack, New Jersey, US, in April 2020