The "tracers", the detectors of epidemic foci, on permanent alert
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The mission of the “covid-19 tracer” is to go back over the years with the infected person and find possible contact cases.
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By: Alexis Bedu Follow
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While the government has just unveiled its vaccine strategy, and invited the French to be “as many as possible” to be vaccinated, “an altruistic act” to “protect others”, 12,696 new infections were recorded in 24 hours and 324 new deaths this Thursday, December 3, it means fewer cases of contamination, fewer people hospitalized.
Despite this deceleration of the epidemic in the country, the tracing teams still remain on alert.
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They are the detectors of epidemic outbreaks and contact cases, the little hands in the health insurance funds.
Report from Amiens, in the north of France.
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