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23 March 2020
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Lesson 3: Contact Tracing, Isolation and Surveillance. When someone tests positive, health workers retrace the patient’s recent movements to find, test — and, if necessary, isolate — anyone the person may have had contact with, a process known as contact tracing
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Experts cite major hurdles to following South Korea’s lead, none related to cost or technology.|One is political will.|Many governments have hesitated to impose onerous measures in the absence of a crisis-level outbreak. |Another is public will.|But time poses the greatest challenge.
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