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Contact Tracing, the West’s Big Hope for Suppressing Covid-19, Is in Disarray - The Wall Street Journal

Contact Tracing, the West’s Big Hope for Suppressing Covid-19, Is in Disarray - The Wall Street Journal

Contact Tracing, the West’s Big Hope for Suppressing Covid-19, Is in Disarray - The Wall Street Journal
Sep 17, 2020 30 secs

PARIS—When countries across the West emerged from lockdown in the spring, governments trained legions of investigators to identify and isolate people potentially infected with the coronavirus.

In France, Spain and England—nations where cases are now rising quickly—investigators have been interviewing far fewer contacts of infected people than officials expected.

Mobile apps developed to notify users if they have been near an infected person, so they can identify themselves to contact tracers, haven’t been widely used.

And Europeans aren’t scrupulously respecting recommendations to quarantine once they have been identified as contacts of an infected person, officials say.

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