Police investigators and crime analysts have been tapped to help LGUs track people who may have contracted the COVID-19 from infected contacts, Mayor Benjamin Magalong said.
While LGUs were concentrating on the number of contact tracers just to comply with government rules, most of the contract tracing mechanisms were “not properly established,” he said.
Citing the situation in Cebu and Quezon cities, Magalong said the high rate of transmission in these areas was due to wrong or lack of information. According to Magalong, police have the investigative skill to locate people and to draw out information, particularly from traumatized patients who would be too distracted from releasing information about their activities.
“Within the first 24 hours, we can identify 70 to 80 percent [of potential contacts],” Magalong said.
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