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Coronavirus: NI contact tracing scheme to be scaled up
Jun 1, 2020
Nurses and environmental health officers will be among those directly recruited to staff NI's contact tracing operation, Robin Swann has said.
The health minister said the current provision will be scaled up to include directly recruited teams.
NI was the first of the four UK administrations to roll out a coronavirus contact tracing programme .
On Sunday, one more coronavirus-related death was reported by NI's Department of Health.
That brought its total, of mainly hospital deaths, to 523.
Image copyright PACEMAKER Image caption Health Minister Robin Swann said the current contact tracing provision will be scaled up
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"We will be scaling up the current contact tracing provision to include teams recruited directly to staff the operation," Mr Swann said.
"This will include professionals such as nurses and environmental health officers for contact tracing with lead clinicians and health protection consultants advising on complex situations and local clusters or outbreaks.
"The work will be supported through the deployment of trained volunteers when required."
On Sunday, First Minister Arlene Foster said Northern Ireland could have contact tracing for "quite some time, possibly even up to two years".
She said contact tracing was vital to "make sure that we know where the virus is in our community".
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