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Expanding Covid-19 Contract Tracing

Expanding Covid-19 Contract Tracing

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As Covid-19 cases surge in South Dakota, the Department of Health is struggling to keep up with contact tracing of the people infected.

Secretary Kim Malsam-Rysdon says they have expanded their tracing workers……

Malsam-Rysdon says they have to make multiple attempts to contact people….

Malsam-Rysdon says they do attempt to reach every positive case….

The state now has just over twenty eight hundred active infection cases.