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Plan B: WA’s new COVID-19 contact tracing tech has capacity to monitor 10,000 active cases – WAtoday
With a COVID-19 vaccine “likely a year away at best”, the WA government has moved to expand its contact tracing capabilities and local PPE supply chains to ensure it can manage up to 10,000 active cases until at least the end of 2022.
A new system capable of hosting 1000 contact tracers assisting 10,000 active cases and their estimated 50,000 close contacts is scheduled to be in place by January, with the contract to run for an initial two years with the opportunity to extend.
The ability to import flight manifests and use integrated GIS systems to visually map outbreak locations were among the requirements for the new system, as well as faster timeframes for identifying close contacts.
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