Contact tracers with the Ministry of Health (MOH) often face numerous stumbling blocks in the race against time to map out a patient's past activities, as they struggle to get information out of forgetful and sometimes severely ill patients in the process.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Contact tracers with the Ministry of Health often face numerous stumbling blocks in the race against time to map out a patient's past activities, as they struggle to get information out of forgetful and sometimes severely ill patients in the process.
This has been the experience of MOH senior manager Cheryl Tang, 35, who heads a team of 80 in contact tracing at the ministry. This has allowed the Health Ministry to accurately collate a list of places visited by infectious patients.Contact tracers list down all the activities and interactions a Covid-19 patient has had in the two weeks prior to the onset of symptoms and until the patient is isolated to ring-fence potential cases and find the origins of the infection.
While the patient had provided contact tracers the names and contacts of her guests, she forgot to mention an acquaintance whom a friend had brought to the gathering. However, she acknowledged that the extent of TraceTogether's usefulness has not been seen yet due to enforced social distancing and the low community spread.
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