Rapid Testing, Contact Tracing Could Reduce COVID-19 Transmission By 80%

Quick turnaround of test results and contact tracing improve the odds of successfully limiting COVID-19 spread.

By providing test results within one day, communities might be able to reduce onward transmission.

It also helps save 80% of the people with whom patients have come into contact with.

It also helps reduce the spread of the virus by 80% per COVID-19 patient, reports UPI.

Contact tracing is a public health approach used to contain the spread of infectious diseases.

This is by attempting to track people who could have been exposed to an infected person.