Last month, Premier Doug Ford announced the province is investing more than $1 billion for expanded COVID-19 testing and contact tracing.
Contact tracing is not something new at Southwestern Public Health, explains Lesley Leach, a public health nurse on the infection control team.
Leach explains the initial steps in that process.
She also covers some of the questions that need to be answered.
Leach notes if you have medical appointments or visit restaurants and other establishments, it’s important to record your contact information to help stop the spread in timely fashion.
You can hear more with Lesley Leach on contact tracing here. We begin with asking if the contact tracers are all health unit employees.
