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Council Eyes Gaps in Contact-Tracing Program in Hard-Hit Neighborhoods

By CRYSTAL LEWIS
Posted 10/2/20

As coronavirus cases surged in several neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens and schools resumed in-person instruction, City Council Members urged the city’s contact-tracing program to hire more staff from hard-hit and immigrant communities during a Sept. 30 hearing.

Although NYC Test and Trace Corps, the contact-tracing program run by NYC Health + Hospitals, launched sluggishly in June, it has reached 90 percent of COVID cases citywide.

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