One of the main tools in our belt to fight coronavirus is contact tracing.

That is, when you identify someone who is positive for COVID-19, you isolate them and then try and find out all the people they've come in contact with.

The way we do contact tracing in Australia hasn't changed much since the beginning of the pandemic, but in other parts of the world it has.

So on today's Coronacast, are we doing contact tracing the wrong way and what can we learn from countries like Japan?