contact tracing

After completing a contract tracing protocol at School No. 29, Rochester City School Districts have announced that they will be reopening on Monday. The news comes after one of the 8 employees that tested positive for COIVD-19 passed away. According to the contract tracing results, the conclusions point to an on-campus transmission scenario that did […]

A worker at the Genesee Brew House has tested positive for COVID-19, so the establishment has opted to close its doors for the time being. They will remain closed for a deep cleaning, but have released information that can help anyone who may have come into contact with the infected individual. The employee was working […]

While at the Rochester Regional Health auditorium, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that Rochester was one of several sites in the Rochester-Finger Lakes nine-county region that had passed a checklist of goals/requirements for Phase 1 re-opening. This will be the first time since March 20 that certain businesses have been allowed to re-open their locations to […]

Governments around the world are now considering different technologies to trace the coronavirus outbreak. Smartphones are one of those technologies, but then privacy and personal data comes into question. To contain infectious disease outbreaks there has to be testing, tracing, and isolation. So with a smartphone tracing app it could make things a little easier […]