NHS CONTACT TRACING: WILL IT WORK?
May 28, 2020
3 minutes
by TIMANDRA HARKNESS (@TimandraHarknes)
One big challenge in the fight against COVID-19 is the fact that it is contagious before any symptoms emerge in people who are infected.
Contact tracing can help reduce the spread of the virus, by finding out how many people the patient may have unknowingly infected before they realised they were ill. There are a number of means of doing this. In South Korea and Singapore, for example, contact tracers work with patients to retrace their movements, using information
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