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COVID-19: TEST-TRACEPROTECT IN WALES DORIS A. BEHRENS, DANIEL GARTNER, JEFF BROWN, ERYL POWELL, DANIEL WESTWOOD AND IZABELA SPERNAES
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CONTACT TRACING IS AN ACKNOWLEDGED STRATEGY to limit the spread of Covid-19 in the community by breaking potential transmission links. In Wales, the Test, Trace, Protect (TTP) strategy includes an approach to testing people with symptoms in the community, tracing those they have come into close contact with, who may be at risk
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of having the virus, and protecting family, friends and our community by self-isolating. While so-called tracers collect all relevant information from symptomatic people only once, TTP advisors stay connected with (asymptomatic) contacts of Covid-19 cases for up to a fortnight – unless these contacts become cases themselves.
