By SUSAN HAIGH and PAT EATON-ROBB

Connecticut officials are working on a plan for anonymous contact tracing of COVID-19, a key component of the state’s eventual efforts to slowly reopen without risking flareups of the coronavirus that causes the disease.

Josh Geballe, chief executive officer for Democratic Gov. Ned Lamont, said Wednesday there will be “a lot of exciting announcements in the near future” about new cloud-based platforms the Department of Public Health has been evaluating.

“It will help us really work more closely with 64 local health departments coordinating with the state, also helping to share resources and volunteers where there may be more need in one area,” he said.

Lamont said the state is interested in working with neighboring states on contact tracing efforts, but said nothing is finalized yet. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Wednesday announced a new COVID-19 contact tracing program that would be coordinated with Connecticut and New Jersey, involving what Cuomo called an “army” of tracers.

Lamont said he has spoken “broadly” with Cuomo about the concept.

“Look, we share information. We’re going to working with him, working with New Jersey, working our regional governors in terms of how they’re doing contact tracing, how we can work that together, checking the data across state borders in some cases, because people go back and forth and infect different people,” he said. “We’ll make up our mind on that pretty soon.”

As of Wednesday, there have been nearly 22,500 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Connecticut, while 1,544 people have died.

For most people, the virus causes mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough, that clear up in two to three weeks. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death.