contact tracing
nounUK /ˈkɒntækt ˈtreɪsɪŋ/
US /ˈkɑːntækt ˈtreɪsɪŋ/
Contact tracing is finding people who were near someone sick so they can be checked too.
The health team used contact tracing to call everyone who had sat near the sick boy.
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2. The process of identifying and monitoring people who may have been exposed to a contagious disease.
Contact tracing helped slow the spread of the virus in the community.
3. A public health method that combines interviews with follow-up calls to break chains of transmission.
Officials relied on contact tracing to map who had been in the same room.
4. In computing, the practice of tracking which devices or users have interacted with a system.
The security team performed contact tracing to find the source of the network breach.