Background Contact tracing is an essential public health measure and a critical component
of comprehensive strategies to control the spread of COVID-19. Contact tracing breaks the …

Background Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus,
and spreads from person-to-person through droplet and contact transmission. To control the …

Contact tracing–along with robust testing, isolation and care of cases–is a key strategy for
interrupting chains of transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and reducing mortality associated with …

Contact tracing is a decades-old tool for helping control the spread of infectious diseases. It
has been used successfully in efforts to contain Ebola, SARS, MERS, tuberculosis, and other …

Importance Contact tracing is a multistep process to limit SARS-CoV-2 transmission. Gaps in
the process result in missed opportunities to prevent COVID-19. Objective To quantify …

In April 2020, CDC introduced the COVIDTracer tool, which allows users to explore the
impact of up to 3 user-defined contact tracing strategies in their own jurisdictions and to …

COVID-19 contact tracing is an induction social network intervention in which the structure of
the social network is leveraged to deploy proven COVID-19 interventions such as testing …

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was first imported into Singapore on 22nd January
2020 by a tourist from Wuhan, China. Since 4th February 2020, local clusters of COVID-19 …

Background Most of the mathematical modeling studies on COVID-19 transmission are
based on continuous deterministic models that do not consider the characteristics of social …

Contact Tracing for Covid-19 Automation using geolocation tracking allowed South Korea to
trace contacts of people infected with SARS-CoV-2 reaching back to 14 days before …