June 16 (EIRNS)—Chinese authorities are moving aggressively to contain the outbreak of COVID-19 that recently appeared in the giant Xinfadi market in Beijing, using intense testing, contact tracing, and quarantine measures. By June 15 Beijing had set up nearly 200 testing sites and contacted about 200,000 people who had visited the Xinfadi market since theContinue reading “Chinese Government Goes Into High Gear To Contain the New COVID-19 Outbreak, this time in Beijing — June 16 Report”
Category Archives: Contact tracing
Update: Massachusetts Contact Tracing and Expanded COVID-19 Testing May 26, 2020
Since this site’s last report on the Massachusetts COVID-19 Community Tracing Collaborative (CTC) 3 weeks ago, tracing teams have phoned approximately 30,000 of persons confirmed positive in the state, have reached close to 20,000 of them and have interviewed as many as 10,000 of their close contacts. Caller ID phone exchanges 833 or 857 have been utilized toContinue reading “Update: Massachusetts Contact Tracing and Expanded COVID-19 Testing May 26, 2020”
COVID-19 Contact Tracing Initiative — Expanding Testing: Massachusetts April – May 2020
Initial Results Reported To contain the spread of COVID -19, the MA COVID-19 Community Tracing Collaborative (CTC) was enacted to conduct contact tracing through a collaborative arrangement among the Office of Massachusetts Governor Baker, Partners in Health (PIH) a non-profit association, with the Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard, in early April. CTC is aContinue reading “COVID-19 Contact Tracing Initiative — Expanding Testing: Massachusetts April – May 2020”
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