The COVIDSafe app, downloaded by more than seven million times at the height of the pandemic, has been overhauled by the Morrison government ahead of a new Christmas advertising campaign to warn Australia against relaxing social distancing measures.
The $2 million app was built to help assist state and territory contact-tracing teams uncover close contacts of infected COVID-19 cases who may have been within 1.5 metres of them for more than 15 minutes in public places such as restaurants, cafes or shops.Health authorities found it assisted in identifying close contacts not picked up through manual tracing, with NSW identifying 80 close contacts, including 17 contacts that weren’t identified by manually contact tracing.
He said testing had shown an improved performance of all encounter logging under all phone conditions and will continue to work on more than 96 per cent of Apple and Android phones.
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