State Health Officials Working to Increase Contact Tracing Efforts

KUAF

Published May 14, 2020 at 11:50 AM CDT

The Arkansas Department of Health is using contact tracing to help stop the chain of transmission during the COVID-19 pandemic. State health officials say they have around 200 people currently helping with the effort, but they're working to increase that to 350.

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