contact tracing
noun/ˈkɒntækt treɪsɪŋ/
/ˈkɑːntækt treɪsɪŋ/
[uncountable]- the process of trying to identify anyone who has recently been near somebody with a disease and may have caught the infection
- Health officials were conducting contact tracing to determine whether anyone else had been exposed to the virus.
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