The Kentucky Chamber and Kentucky Community and Technical College System recently hosted a webinar with Governor Andy Beshear and Mark Carter on Kentucky’s new contact tracing program.

Kentucky’s state government will be hiring 700 individuals to do COVID-19 contact tracing. After someone tests positive, one of these contact tracers will talk with the individual to get basic information about them and get a list of people they have recently been in contact with. Following that, the people on the list will continue to be contacted over a 14-day period and may be asked to self-isolate in order to prevent the spread of the virus.

Gov. Andy Beshear says the system will take privacy very seriously and will take steps to protect the personal information of all individuals.

Read more about this on the Kentucky’s Chamber website, The Bottom Line at https://kychamberbottomline.com/2020/05/18/state-launching-online-tracking-system-for-covid-19-contact-tracing/.