PETER GRIFFIN: Covid-19 tracing complexities require a better approach

PETER GRIFFIN: Covid-19 tracing complexities require a better approach
Peter Griffin
As we prepare to emerge from level 4 lockdown, uncertainty remains over one important area of the government’s epidemic response — contact tracing. This is the process of identifying and finding people who have come into contact with those infected with the covid-19 coronavirus.At the moment it is a very manual process with a couple of hundred people employed by the government, and maybe a hundred more scattered across health providers, making calls every day to track down people who an infected patient can remember being in co...

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