contact tracer

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contact tracer (plural contact tracers)

  1. (epidemiology) A person engaged in contact tracing.
    • 2020 April 7, James Tapper, “Recruit volunteer army to trace coronavirus contacts now, urge top scientists”, in The Guardian[1]:
      Contact tracing was used in Wuhan, where 1,800 teams of five people went house to house, and Ireland last week said it would recruit 1,400 contact tracers.

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