D.C. health department can’t reach White House for COVID-19 tracing, Bowser says
Officials with the Washington, D.C., Department of Health have been unsuccessful in trying to connect with the White House to assist with contact tracing and other protocols regarding the COVID-19 outbreak.
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Hong Kong residents challenge government over laws, but fight virus together
Recent headlines out of Hong Kong have focused on politics, with the imposition of a controversial new national security law from Beijing. But on the public health front, Hong Kong has been a coronavirus success story, suffering much less infection…
Tracking coronavirus cases proves difficult amid new surge
Contact tracing tracks people who test positive and anyone they've come in contact with. It was challenging even when stay-at-home orders were in place, but it's exponentially more difficult now.
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How Vietnam’s authoritarian government succeeded at containing COVID-19
The coronavirus pandemic is continuing to spread across much of the world, but one country that set out to defeat it has apparently succeeded: Vietnam. Bordering China, where the virus originated, the similarly authoritarian country instituted mass quarantines and social…
France is rolling out an official coronavirus contact-tracing app aimed at containing fresh outbreaks as lockdown restrictions gradually ease.
State governments across the country are hiring thousands of people as contact tracers to track the spread of COVID-19 and to help bring it under control. The data collected from contact tracing can help researchers better understand how the virus…
Doubts were growing on Thursday over whether ambitious plans by European governments to use contact-tracing apps to fight the spread of the coronavirus will be able to be implemented with any real effectiveness soon.
Many governments eager to reopen their societies are starting to bet on smartphone apps to help stanch the coronavirus pandemic.
Testing alone without extensive contact tracing is not enough to control COVID-19, public health experts say. But people's memories can quickly complicate the detective work required to mitigate a pandemic.
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