contact tracing en · NOUN
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Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) The process of identification of persons ("contacts") who may have come into contact with a person carrying an infectious disease.
There's a strong case for replacing the present system of anonymous testing with mandatory reporting of new infections, and vigorous contact tracing of sexual and needle-sharing partners.
1989 June 8, “The Case for Tracing AIDS Partners”, in The New York Times:Other health care professionals also may be trained as part of the effort to more than double to 1,500 the number of people conducting interviews and contact tracings on an ongoing basis.
2020 April 22, Kie Relyea, “State asks National Guard for 500 people to help with coronavirus contact tracing work”, in The Bellingham Herald:For millions of American lives touched by the coronavirus, it was too late to correct the failure to stand up protocols for masking and social distancing, testing and contact-tracing. But negative consequences of the culture war around the pandemic could still lie ahead, damaging the national vaccination effort.
2020 November 20, Tom McCarthy, “Republican officials finally forced into action on Covid-19 as reality bites”, in The Guardian:New research from RSSB [...] shows that in a typical UK train, you have around a 1-in-11,000 chance of catching COVID-19. This reflects German research by DB which concluded: "To our knowledge, not a single contact tracing has been identified in Germany and Austria as having been triggered by an infection on the train journey."
2020 August 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Rail at the brink? Not yet...”, in Rail, page 3:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| contact-tracing | alternative | lexicographic | |
| contact tracings | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Relateds
contact tracer · contact trace
Translations (33)
de Kontaktnachverfolgung (the process of identification of persons who may have come into contact with an infected person) · vi sự truy tìm tiếp xúc (the process of identification of persons who may have come into contact with an infected person) · nn smittesporing (the process of identification of persons who may have come into contact with an infected person) · el ανίχνευση επαφών (the process of identification of persons who may have come into contact with an infected person) · sv smittspårning (the process of identification of persons who may have come into contact with an infected person) · vi sự theo dõi các tiếp xúc (the process of identification of persons who may have come into contact with an infected person) · vi sự theo dõi liên lạc (the process of identification of persons who may have come into contact with an infected person) · hu kontaktkutatás (the process of identification of persons who may have come into contact with an infected person) · pl ustalanie kontaktów zakaźnych (the process of identification of persons who may have come into contact with an infected person) · fr contact tracing (the process of identification of persons who may have come into contact with an infected person) · mk следење на изложеност (the process of identification of persons who may have come into contact with an infected person) · it tracciamento dei contatti (the process of identification of persons who may have come into contact with an infected person) · it contact tracing (the process of identification of persons who may have come into contact with an infected person) · mi whakatewhatewha pānga (the process of identification of persons who may have come into contact with an infected person) · he חקירה אפידמיולוגית (the process of identification of persons who may have come into contact with an infected person) · vi sự theo dõi các liên hệ (the process of identification of persons who may have come into contact with an infected person) · cmn 接觸者追蹤 /接触者追踪 (the process of identification of persons who may have come into contact with an infected person) · cy olrhain cyswllt (the process of identification of persons who may have come into contact with an infected person) · ga rianú teagmhálacha (the process of identification of persons who may have come into contact with an infected person) · fi kontaktinjäljitys (the process of identification of persons who may have come into contact with an infected person) · it rintracciamento dei contatti (the process of identification of persons who may have come into contact with an infected person) · es rastreo de contactos (the process of identification of persons who may have come into contact with an infected person) · de Kontaktpersonennachverfolgung (the process of identification of persons who may have come into contact with an infected person) · nl bron- en contactonderzoek (the process of identification of persons who may have come into contact with an infected person) · hu kontaktkövetés (the process of identification of persons who may have come into contact with an infected person) · pt rastreamento de contatos (the process of identification of persons who may have come into contact with an infected person) · de Kontaktverfolgung (the process of identification of persons who may have come into contact with an infected person) · nb smittesporing (the process of identification of persons who may have come into contact with an infected person) · fr recherche des contacts (the process of identification of persons who may have come into contact with an infected person) · km ការតាមដានទំនាក់ទំនង (the process of identification of persons who may have come into contact with an infected person) · ko 접촉자 추적 (the process of identification of persons who may have come into contact with an infected person) · nb kontaktsporing (the process of identification of persons who may have come into contact with an infected person) · vi sự truy vết tiếp xúc (the process of identification of persons who may have come into contact with an infected person)