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San Diego County Public Health officials said Wednesday they are working with tribal lands to investigate positive COVID-19 cases that may be connected to several local casinos.

The county said that, as of Wednesday, no confirmed outbreaks have been linked to the casinos, reports NBC 7’s Artie Ojeda, but the investigations are ongoing.

San Diego County public health authorities reported 332 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday — a new daily high among days of rising case numbers this week.

Since the beginning of May, the San Diego County Health Department has investigated more than 5,000 close contacts of positive COVID-19 cases. That number is expected to grow as businesses begin to reopen and with it, more challenges are expected.

A Chula Vista church under scrutiny for potential health order violations last month is now the focus of a county COVID-19 contact tracing investigation after two people connected to the church tested positive.

UC San Diego’s pilot program “Return to Learn” has tested more than 1,500 students over the last three weeks and not a single student tested positive for COVID-19, the school said Monday. The school’s initial batch of students was the first step on its way to testing roughly 5,000 students who stayed on campus, according to UCSD officials. Since March,…

A source tells NBC 7 the cases currently under investigation happened before the state and county loosened restrictions NBC 7’s Artie Ojeda has more.

From Ebola Virus to Syphilis, to many other communicable diseases, contact tracing has been a vital tool in stopping a virus’ spread and raising public awareness. Coronavirus is no different. States and municipal governments, including San Diego County, are hiring thousands of people to fill the roles as contact tracers. Minus a vaccine for COVID-19, the job is an important...

NBC 7 Investigates’ Alexis Rivas gains access to contact tracers, whose goal is to stop COVID-19 in its tracks.

With the county deploying more than 400 contact tracers to notify individuals who may have been exposed to COVID-19, local officials are urging residents to pick up the phone if an unfamiliar phone number calls because it may be regarding their health.

Health experts are concerned that protests erupting across the nation and the law enforcement response to them will upend efforts to track and contain the spread of coronavirus just as those efforts were finally getting underway

A demo of a German coronavirus app was released on Friday which authorities hope will allow the country to safely reopen in time for summer tourism.

Scammers pretending to be coronavirus contact tracers are sending text messages to warn people they’ve been exposed to someone with COVID-19 and need to click a link to learn more.

Librarian Lisa Fagundes has spent many years happily surrounded by the fiction books she loves, at her job on the first floor of San Francisco’s Main Library. But now in pandemic times, Fagundes has been tapped for a job that sounds like it was plucked from one of those science fiction titles — she’s now an official “contact tracer.”

As countries around the world edge toward ending lockdowns and restarting their economies and societies, citizens are being more closely monitored

Effective contact tracing is key to mitigating the spread of the coronavirus, experts say. Here’s how it works.

California’s ambitious plan to double the current number of coronavirus tests is being paired with a massive campaign to track down every person who may become infected by each new person who tests positive for the virus. Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday that as part of statewide plans to reopen businesses, California aims to reassign 20,000 public employees as COVID-19...

A Harvard study suggests there should be about 152 tests done for every 100,000 people, reports NBC 7’s Priya Sridhar, meaning that San Diego that needs to conduct about 5,200 tests per day.

Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday that major improvements are coming for testing and contact tracing. NBC 7’s Danny Freeman has more details on how that might happen

If you search “contact tracing” in the app store on your phone, you’ll find at least three apps that claim they can stop the spread of COVID-19, and help protect you from the potentially devastating disease. But one expert warns those apps are of little value in the local effort to contain COVID-19.  “The apps you’re seeing through the...