Contact tracing falters in Barcelona amid virus spike

When Sonia Ramírez was told by her local clinic that she had tested positive for the coronavirus, she expected to be asked about anyone she had come in close contact with recently. Instead, like an unknown number of Spaniards in the northeast region of Catalonia, she was left on her own to warn family, friends and co-workers that they could have been exposed amid a new surge of infections. “They didn’t ask me who I had been with,” said Ramírez, a 21-year-old cleaner in the greater Barcelona area.