HSE to launch 14-day contract tracing to identify coronavirus ‘hot spots’

The HSE confirmed today that the initial exercise will “involve interviewing 500 recent cases of community transmission in relation to their contacts and settings that they visited in the 14 days prior to the onset of symptoms”.

This may be repeated, the HSE said, or incorporated into the wider contact-management programme, but those decisions will be informed by the findings of the project. Questions in the exercise will focus on visits to relatives or friends’ homes, eating out, entertainment, special events, sport and exercise, public transport or religious services, among other criteria.

This, the HSE said, will enable quantitative analysis “to identify key settings where exposure to infection most likely occurred and potential hot spots for infection”. In some instances, people with Covid have been asked during the contact-tracing process to outline their movements for up to 14 days.

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