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Victoria develops tool to rapidly track mystery coronavirus cases
An Australian-first tool designed to track mystery cases faster has been developed in Victoria, saving epidemiologists hours of time in contact tracing investigations.
Key points:
- The tracker uses contact tracing data to help map links between coronavirus cases
- Its development follows criticism of Victoria’s contact tracing system
- Health authorities say Victoria’s ready to share the new tool with other states
The “Mystery Case Tracker” was invented in-house by Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) epidemiologists and public health experts and uses contact tracing data to quickly generate digital diagrams that can map the links between cases and contacts, and their movements.
The visual-map tool started being used to investigate…
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