These Elite Contact Tracers Show the World How to Beat Covid-19

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A medical worker, center, speaks with a visitor from inside the Covid-19 safety booth in the walk-thru testing center at H Plus Yangji Hospital in Seoul, South Korea, on July 24.Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg

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By Heesu Lee

July 25, 2020 at 5:00 PM EDT

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July 27, 2020 at 5:19 AM EDT

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In May, when a coronavirus outbreak hit nightclubs in the South Korean capital of Seoul, health officials quickly unleashed their version of the Navy Seals -- elite teams of epidemiologists, database specialists and laboratory technicians.

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