CONTACT TRACING
his expression is now known worldwide, as the COVID-19 pandemic expression…coined here in Australia. The earliest recorded mention of contact tracing comes from the October 1910 edition of the in an article about school epidemics. It talks of the importance of the school nurse in “swab-taking, contact tracing, and similar necessary details”. The dictionary definition is “the action or process of identifying individuals who have been in the proximity of a person diagnosed with an infectious disease”. Whether or not Australia gives the world a vaccine, we’ve already provided the name for tracking down those who have met a COVID carrier, because we’ve coined (and shared with the world) the term contact tracing.
