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Updated by Director of Student Health, Approved by CIRTMarch 14, 2022 By Maureen ZambitoWEST LIBERTY, W.Va., March 14, 2022 – Please find below updated contact tracing guidelines as approved by the West Liberty University Critical Incident…

If you have been around someone with COVID-19, you should take precautions to avoid spreading the disease. You may find out from a friend, family member or workplace that you have been in close contact with someone who has…

HOWELL, NJ — School districts in New Jersey have begun announcing changes to their existing COVID-19 protocols as the state's mask mandate ends March 7. Among them are Howell Township Public Schools, which recently announced a halt to…

Health directors call on state to move from 'pandemic to endemic' status Changes to COVID protocols and guidelines — ranging from the lifting of school mask mandates to new rules on school quarantine — have occurred in!-->…

The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District is no longer conducting COVID-19 contact tracing at schools where universal masking is in place, in accordance with updates to the district's mitigation plan announced last month .…

The Coatesville Area School District will no longer conduct contact tracing in accordance with its updated…

UNION COUNTY, North Carolina — In an 8-1 vote Tuesday night, the Union County Public Schools Board of Education approved an end to contact tracing and quarantine requirements. Citing a joint resolution approved with Union County…

YOLO COUNTY (CBS13) – CBS13 has learned that several people have tested positive for Covid-19 and have not received calls or text messages from contact tracers for weeks.This raised two questions: are people unknowingly exposing others and…

CANTON – Due to the increase in COVID-19 cases, the St. Lawrence County Public Health Department will stop…

The spike in COVID-19 infections in Pennsylvania has prevented state investigators from contacting all…

The Oregon Health Authority recently released new COVID-19 contact tracing and notification recommendations…

HONG KONG—Two Covid-19 contact tracing efforts in the Chinese capital have combined to open a window into the extreme inequalities that have absorbed many people in the world's most populous country.On January 15, health authorities in…

Harvard students will soon return to campus and find new COVID-19 policies in place. school announced last week that it will no longer provide contact tracing due to high volume, so students who test positive will need to…

The No. 10 District Health Department announced Tuesday that it is ending universal contact tracing at the individual level. They say it comes after the MDHHS announced it would halt the process. According to DHD #10, it is…

TOPEKA – The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) today announces that effective February 1, 2022, COVID-19 contact outreach and surveillance, also known as contact tracing, will be discontinued at!-->…

MARQUETTE, Mich. (WLUC) – Due to the sharp increase in positive cases in the community and the recent update to the CDC's isolation and quarantine guidelines, the Marquette County Health Department (MCHD) will realign its approach to…

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Public health officials on Thursday announced updated guidelines for contact tracing and case management in Manitoba schools as the omicron variant continues to spread across the province. “As public health officials study!-->…

ALBANY, NY (NEWS10) – Starting this week, New York will no longer expect local health departments to perform COVID contact tracing for most cases. New Yorkers who test positive for COVID-19 will no longer receive a call from a…

BATAVIA, NY (WROC) – Genesee and Orleans county officials held a COVID-19 briefing Thursday morning to update residents on the pandemic, including recent local measures, availability of recalls, testing , etc Briefing participants…

BINGHAMTON, NY (WSKG) – New York County Health Services is no longer required to conduct contact tracing for COVID-19 cases, according to an announcement Tuesday by State Health Commissioner Mary Bassett and Governor Kathy Hochul.…

WEST LIBERTY, W.Va., January 7, 2022 - Please find below updated contact tracing guidelines approved by the University of West Liberty Critical Incident Response Team (CIRT) and following best practices from the CDC and Wheeling-Ohio County…

As coronavirus cases spike after winter break, St. Paul Public Schools is considering no longer identifying and excluding unvaccinated students who come into contact with an infected person at school. Contact tracing is straining school…

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia is easing COVID-19 quarantine and contact tracing requirements in schools as Gov. Brian Kemp urges superintendents to keep students attending in person.Kemp and Public Health Commissioner Kathleen Toomey published a…

The Southern Seven Health Department is modifying its COVID-19 contact tracing process as initiated by the…

HUDSON – The spike in COVID-19 cases means you may not get a call from contact tracers, but you may need to…

FAIRFIELD, CT – Fairfield is pausing school contact tracing for the coronavirus, the district announced over the weekend.The school system made the decision to halt contact tracing after the state health department released optional…

WINNEBAGO COUNTY (WIFR) – Texting is the new way Winnebago County residents will learn when they test positive for COVID-19 and it's how health department specialists will help them know what to do then. The Illinois Department of Public…

Prince Edward Island Premier Dennis King said an increase in absenteeism is one of the impacts of the Omicron variant that the province is most likely to see in the weeks to come. to come. “As more and more people test positive,…

NSW Health has reduced contact tracing for close contacts of COVID-19 cases as infections soar in the state.NSW Health confirmed in today's case numbers that they have changed their approach to contact tracing.“NSW Health is now…

ROCK ISLAND CO., Ill. (KWQC) - The Illinois Department of Public Health will support COVID-19 contact tracing through the State Contact Tracing Surge Center.Rock Island County Health Administrator Nita Ludwig said the surge center will help…

You may have been left in the dark about recent close contact with COVID-19. Contact tracing has helped curb the spread of COVID-19, but the Middlesex London Health Unit (MLHU) admits the Omicron variant has exceeded its ability…

Massachusetts is ending its program that tracks people who have been in close contact with someone with COVID-19.The Boston Globe reports that there are no more state-funded workers to help track new infections, so local health departments…

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts is ending its program that tracks people who were in close contact with someone with COVID-19. The Boston Globe reports that there are no more state-funded workers to help track new infections, so…

The directive has prompted sighs of relief from some weary local health directors, but also concerns about how to impress upon their residents that COVID spreads rapidly with the Omicron variant and should always be taken seriously."It's a…

The emergence of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 is straining Ottawa Public Health's contact tracing efforts and residents are now being urged to contact their close contacts themselves. Medical Officer of…

People who have visited an Ayrshire pub over an eight-day period are being asked to take a Covid test. It follows a positive case of the virus linked to the Dalmellington Inn. The NHS Ayrshire & Arran Test & Protect team are!-->…

Over the past week, COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations have returned to high levels not seen since the start of this year. Douglas County health officials say contact tracing is one of the main ways to control…

Note: This story is over a week old. Given how quickly the Covid-19 pandemic is evolving, we recommend reading our latest coverage here. The union that represents faculty members at the University of Vermont filed a grievance with the…

David Murray attended what he believed was a COVID-safe country music event at the Hamilton Golf Club in western Victoria on Nov. 14, an event that has since spawned a cluster of 31 cases on Thursday.Key points:Victorians say they received…

There will be no school, in person or remotely, on Monday November 22 and Tuesday November 23 in the River…

It is an overwhelming time for the Ministry of Health. We are in the midst of a COVID-19 surge. The health department blames the highly contagious delta variant for the rise in cases and now they are asking some…

St. Croix County reported 597 positive cases of COVID-19 in the first seven days of November 2021. The…

HARTFORD, CT (WFSB) - The Department of Public Health said it received a dozen calls from people who said…

Case investigations and contact tracing are tools used to control and prevent the spread of diseases, such as COVID-19. The goal of a case investigation is to talk to people who have a disease (case) to find out more about their disease…

For COVID-19 contact tracers in the Inland Empire, work only increased a year and a half after the coronavirus pandemic. Now that schools have fully reopened, the new push is keeping students – who are among the most vulnerable – safe.…

As the school year continues during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, schools crucially continue to conduct contact tracing for the virus. However, questions about the process often arise as COVID cases inevitably appear in schools.…

It's hard to be a school nurse right now.Worries about COVID dominate their days. This year, all students are back in class, so there is almost no physical distancing. This is even if the highly contagious delta variant continues to…

OU contact tracing is currently limited to the Healthy Together app and the "individual responsibility" of…

When Harvard brought a limited number of undergraduate students back to campus in the fall of 2020, it promised that a robust internal contact tracing system would limit exposures to the coronavirus and that comfortable housing would be…