HSE to start retrospective contact tracing next week

Paul Reid at Dr Steevens’ Hospital for the weekly HSE operational update on the response to Covid-19. Picture: Leon Farrell / Photocall Ireland

The HSE is to begin a process of retrospective contact tracing in the coming days.

It is hoped this will help public health to identify the source of community infections, which currently account for about one-fifth of all cases of Covid-19.