contact tracer
noun/ˈkɒntækt treɪsə(r)/
/ˈkɑːntækt treɪsər/
- a person whose job is to identify anyone who has recently been near somebody with a disease and may have caught the infection
- Thousands of coronavirus contact tracers were recruited by the government.
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