Capacity to test broadly throughout the population and to trace contacts with those who test positive for Covid-19 is a crucial element of the state's plans to lift restrictions, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo have previously said.
New York City plans to hire 1,000 health workers to track people who had contact with individuals who tested positive for the coronavirus, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Monday.
The city's contact tracers will interview and identify people who came into contact with those who tested positive for Covid-19, de Blasio said The city's team of contact tracers will interview and identify people who have come into contact with those who tested positive for Covid-19, said de Blasio, who called them "disease detectives." The tracers will also provide support to New Yorkers who need to be isolated, de Blasio said.
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