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MOSCOW, may 11 — RIA Novosti. Specialists in public institutions of health data exchange and tracking contacts of people infected with coronavirus are using outdated methods of fixation data and technologies, including Fax, the newspaper Politico.

according to the newspaper, in the public institutions of the health sector of the United States — from the Centre for control and prevention (CDC) to the local level — experts in contact tracing of cases of “drowning” in a large number of paper reports, make spreadsheets, and use Fax machines.

“Our ability to do the work on tracing, which we need to perform constrained. We don’t really have a single repository of data for tracking” — leads edition of the words of the coordinator of Washington’s response to the coronavirus Raquel Bono.

She pointed out that reporting “is conducted mostly by hand.” According to the newspaper, this is happening across the country. The reasons for this situation, the newspaper sees “the years of missed opportunities” and that most of the medical sector in America has been modernized, and institutions are left behind.

against this background, 35 U.S. States lifted the restrictions, in particular, of the order of isolation, adds Politico.

According to the latest Johns Hopkins University, in the US, the coronavirus has infected 1 327 720 people died 79 495 and recovered 212 534 cases.