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Alberta adds more contact tracers, can now trace every COVID-19 case

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AHS switched to only tracing cases in high-priority settings, such as continuing care facilities, healthcare facilities and schools; other positive cases were left to do their own tracing.The province also stopped tracing positive cases where who had already spent 10 days in isolation, as it focused on the most recent cases first.[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]On Jan.

12, Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Deena Hinshaw said they were able to reach out to these high-priority cases within 24 hours.

At the time, Hinshaw said there wasn’t an exact date of when all new cases could be reached within 24 hours but she said that was the goal.Williamson said the improvement was due in part to lower case.

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