Delaware Division Of Public Health Contact Tracing

Delaware will hire approximately 200 delawareans as contact tracers and support staff as a part of the expanded statewide contact tracing program.

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Recoveries deaths remain steady dover sept. Help us stop the virus. Contact tracers interview individuals who have recently been in close contact with someone who has tested positive for the disease. The division of public health had a small contact tracing team in early march working on the coronavirus but the team was overwhelmed as delaware quickly reached community spread.

Thursday september 3 2020. Governor john carney announced on may 12 that the state of delaware and the nonpartisan research institution norc at the university of chicago would work together to build delaware s statewide contact tracing program adding as many as 200 contact tracers. Meier an officer with the delaware air national guard and joint task force delaware has his temperature checked before the start of a division of public health led session on. Contact tracing is the process of identifying notifying and monitoring anyone who came in close contact with an individual who tested positive for covid 19 while they were infectious 2 days before onset of symptoms until the end of the person s isolation period.

4 2020 the delaware division of public health dph is providing an update on the most recent statistics related to coronavirus disease 2019 covid 19 in delaware as of 6 p m. Dhss draft strategic plan july 16 2020 email comments to dhss townhall delaware gov dhss home. Answer the call from our contact tracers the phone number they call from is 302 446 4262 or your caller id will say de publichealth returning to school reopening plan. September 4 2020 weekly covid 19 update sept.

Building delaware s contact tracing workforce since the start of the pandemic the division of public health has been engaging in contact tracing to mitigate the spread of the virus. Over the next week as the state of delaware scales up its contact tracing operation 100 members of the delaware national guard will embed with the division of public health to begin wide scale statewide contact tracing.