In an effort to bolster the state’s contact tracing efforts, health department officials are testing an “exposure-notification” app that would alert individuals after coming into close contact with a COVID-19-positive person.

The state health department unveiled a nearly $23 million federally funded contract with the Atlanta, Georgia-based staffing firm Insight Global to recruit and train remote 1,000 contract tracers in addition to the 654 currently monitoring the spread of the COVID-19 in Pennsylvania.