AUSTRALIA COVID : CONTACT TRACING APP LABELLED AN EXPENSIVE 'FAILURE'

  • 10/08/2022

After discovering only two unique illnesses, a multi-million dollar Australian software designed to track Covid interactions has been deactivated and labelled "a failure."

Health Minister Mark Butler urged consumers to uninstall the app, calling it a "colossal waste" of government dollars.

Former Prime Minister Scott Morrison has described COVIDsafe as "as important as putting on sunscreen."

However, experts questioned the Bluetooth-based tracking method's efficiency.

The programme, which cost $14 million (£11.42 million) when it originally launched in April 2020, was supposed to assist manual contract tracers in identifying positive Covid infections.

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