Coronavirus contact tracing to start in North next week

It was largely stopped last month based on “sound public health considerations” but will become “crucially important” to overcome local pockets of infection, the North's CMO said.

The North's chief medical officer Dr Michael McBride

Beefed-up contact tracing to track the spread of coronavirus will begin in Northern Ireland next week.

It was largely stopped last month based on “sound public health considerations” but will become “crucially important” to overcome local pockets of infection, the North's chief medical officer Dr Michael McBride said.