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Hello and welcome to the English we speak.

I'm Fay Faye.

And I'm Roy.

Faye Faye do not touch my phone. What? I wasn't even going to go near your phone.

Well, I know you want to know who I've been calling, but you can't have my contact list.

Wait, did you hear me talking about contact tracing earlier?

It's not the kind of contact that we're tracing.

Well, I don't want to hug either. I'm not a fan of unnecessary physical

contact. I don't know why people feel the need to touch me to get my

attention when I have a name. Again, not that kind of contact.

Contact tracing is related to the coronavirus pandemic. When someone is diagnosed with COVID-19,

doctors try to trace people they have had contact with to see who could be infected

So you don't want my contact list then?

No, I don't need your contact list.

Let's listen to these examples.

The doctors found four other people who had the virus through contact tracing. I downloaded an app to help me with

contact tracing. Contact tracing is an important part of slowing the progression of the virus.

This is the English we speak from BBC Learning English and we're talking about the expression contact tracing.

This is the process of searching for potential cases of the disease in people who have

been in contact with an infected person.

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