Valenzuela hires 226 contact tracers
The City Government of Valenzuela has welcomed another batch of contact tracers who are expected to boost the city’s localized response against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
A total of 226 contact tracers were hired by the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) to bolster the city’s contact tracing effort.
With the additional personnel in the city’s workforce, the city expressed confidence the supplement in its operations will provide for a more efficient contact tracing management.
This is expected to be of big help to the local Barangay Health Emergency Response Teams in their contact tracing efforts in the barangay level.
The newly-hired contact tracers were trained in proper disease surveillance and contact tracing, handling data privacy and the use of the ValTrace app, Valenzuela’s newest addition to its contact tracing platform with the use of QR codes and location history.
Since the last week of August, the City Health Office has already held three batches of contact tracing and surveillance training seminars for city-hired contact tracers, data encoders and City Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit staff.
Contact tracers hired by the DILG will be deployed to the different barangays in Valenzuela to conduct fieldwork.
“This is expected to be of big help to the local Barangay Health Emergency Response Teams in their contact tracing efforts in the barangay level,” the city government said.
While the DILG serves as their employer, the local government is responsible for assigning their job responsibilities, deployment areas and schedules.