contact tracing
Speech parts
1. contact tracing - Noun
2. contact tracing - Verb
Meaning
contact tracing (countable and uncountable, plural contact tracings)
(epidemiology) The process of identification of persons ("contacts") who may have come into contact with a person carrying an infectious disease.
contact tracing
present participle of contact trace
contact-tracing (countable and uncountable, plural contact-tracings)
Alternative form of contact tracing.
contact-tracing
present participle of contact-trace
Alternative names
contact-tracing
Examples
A flurry of contact-tracing followed the announcement since Macron had recently been in contact with several other world leaders.
'Amnesty has written to the Health Secretary setting out key principles to inform the UK Government's decision about any roll-out of the current choice of COVID-19 contact-tracing app.
But many current contact-tracing apps have — for example leaking a user’s location information or taking away people’s control over their own data.
Contact tracing apps work by exchanging Bluetooth handshakes with smartphones around them, recording times that users come into contact with potential coronavirus carriers.
Apple and Google released underlying technology that allows public health authorities to create their own contact-tracing apps.
Apple, Google and a number of states, as well as European countries, are working to develop contact-tracing apps that can show whether someone has crossed paths with an infected person.