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N.J., Del. to hire 1,200 contact tracers as part of COVID-19 response

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Two local states are poised to hire at least 1,200 people to assist with contact tracing to assist with detecting and stopping new virus clusters before they get out of control.

The goal of these roles is to used investigators to contact people who test positive, track down their contacts and get them into quarantine before they can spread the virus.

Gov. Phil Murphy says New Jersey will be more than doubling the number of public health professionals currently tracing COVID-19 cases.

Murphy said Tuesday during a news conference that New Jersey will hire at least 1,000 people, creating a Community Contact Tracing Corps and supplementing the roughly 800 to 900 mostly county health officials who are currently tracing contacts among

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