Contact Tracing

Health experts are concerned that protests erupting across the nation and the law enforcement response to them will upend efforts to track and contain the spread of coronavirus just as those efforts were finally getting underway

A demo of a German coronavirus app was released on Friday which authorities hope will allow the country to safely reopen in time for summer tourism.

Giving personal information over the phone may put people on edge, so tracers need to work around that. NBC10’s Brandon Hudson reports.

Scammers pretending to be coronavirus contact tracers are sending text messages to warn people they’ve been exposed to someone with COVID-19 and need to click a link to learn more.

Librarian Lisa Fagundes has spent many years happily surrounded by the fiction books she loves, at her job on the first floor of San Francisco’s Main Library. But now in pandemic times, Fagundes has been tapped for a job that sounds like it was plucked from one of those science fiction titles — she’s now an official “contact tracer.”

States and local health departments are hiring people to work in contact tracing as they continue to battle the coronavirus pandemic. Tens of thousands of people are already learning how to do it. NBC10’s Matt DeLucia explains.

As countries around the world edge toward ending lockdowns and restarting their economies and societies, citizens are being more closely monitored

Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware all have plans to hire more contact tracers.

Officials are ramping up contact tracing amid the coronavirus pandemic which is leading to more job opportunities. NBC10’s Deanna Durante explains.

NBC10’s Pamela Osborne reports on the role contact tracers will play in slowing the spread of the novel coronavirus in New Jersey and Delaware.

Delaware is planning to test up to 80,000 state residents each month for COVID-19 and begin widespread contact tracing of positive cases to contain the virus as the state begins a slow reopening.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said Tuesday that the state wants to hit certain testing targets before moving toward reopening.

Effective contact tracing is key to mitigating the spread of the coronavirus, experts say. Here’s how it works.

Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) wants to expand service programs like AmeriCorps to help with contact tracing amid the coronavirus pandemic. He spoke about his proposal with NBC10’s Lauren Mayk.