SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (KWQC) -The Illinois Department of Public Health is shifting its COVID-19 contact tracing telephone calls to focus on a more strategic approach of automated case notifications.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aug. 23—With COVID-19 cases increasing rapidly in Kings County, public health officials say contact tracers are spread thin, the ...

An important measure in slowing the spread of the coronavirus is contact tracing. Los Angeles health officials are helping to track the disease. COVID-19 cases in L.A. County have risen significantly ...

FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. — Contact tracing has been a part of life since the start of the pandemic, with health experts reaching out to close contacts of people who test positive for COVID. But changes are ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — On Friday, the state had around 4,800 active COVID-19 cases. Testing has increased dramatically since the surge began several weeks ago, and contact tracers are once again having a ...

Mar. 13—WATERTOWN — Lindsay Pollard's sunny, upbeat voice is a comforting asset as a Contact Tracer connecting with North Country residents exposed to COVID-19. The Connecticut native and her husband, ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Dangerous variants, vaccine hesitancy, and large family gatherings; that formula is keeping contact tracers busy--so busy that the city is ramping up contact tracing operations.

CHICAGO (CBS) --Even as the CDC relaxes some COVID-19 guidelines, city and county officials say contact tracing is still going strong. Some contact tracers even have expanded their roles to include ...

COVID-19 cases are spreading so fast that they're outpacing the contact-tracing capacities of some local health departments. Faced with mounting case loads, those departments are asking people who ...

CAMDEN, New Jersey (WPVI) -- Contact tracers say they hitting some roadblocks as the COVID-19 pandemic drags on. We got to speak with one of the communicable disease investigators in Camden County who ...