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    What it’s like as a contact tracer to tell someone they have Covid – and what happens next | Anonymous

    Aug 16, 2021 4 minutes

    It’s pretty awful to ring someone up and tell them they’re positive for Covid-19. I felt quite disturbed the night after I’d done it for the first time.

    As a contact tracer I have to tell people they are Covid-positive and then work with them to figure out their movements while infectious.

    It’s almost like telling someone they’ve got cancer. People that I have spoken to have been really shocked. They’ve been doing the right thing – most of them just happened to live in south-west Sydney.

    Sometimes after certain phone calls I find it hard to sleep at night as I think about them and wonder how they’re going

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