Individuals can do their part by keeping a diary to record their movements, say observers.
Some individuals, stuck at home or busy at essential jobs, immediately recognised the historical nature of this pandemic and began drafting their own personal histories. On Mar 15, author Ruth Franklin urged such diaries on Twitter: “Later, you will want a record.”
In mid-April, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern urged New Zealanders to keep a diary, “a quick note of where you've been and who you've been with”. Manual contact tracing with interviews remains the gold standard, and the World Health Organization credited the early and extensive use of contact tracing measures in Germany and South Korea for stopping virus clusters before they went out of control.FILE PHOTO: A logo is pictured on the headquarters of the World Health Organization ahead of a meeting of the Emergency Committee on the novel coronavirus in Geneva, Switzerland, January 30, 2020.
WHO points out that contact tracing also requires adequate supplies of tests. Otherwise, public health authorities must ration tests and focus on high-risk groups such as nursing homes, prisons and crowded workplaces.
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