Australians rush to download coronavirus tracing app, PM Scott Morrison's popularity soars

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SYDNEY (REUTERS) - More than a million Australians rushed to download an app designed to help medical workers and state governments trace close contacts of Covid-19 patients, as Prime Minister Scott Morrison's approval rating soared on his pandemic response.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

SYDNEY - More than a million Australians rushed to download an app designed to help medical workers and state governments trace close contacts of Covid-19 patients, as Prime Minister Scott Morrison's approval rating soared on his pandemic response.

"It is about assisting our disease experts to find people who might have been exposed and we are well ahead of our best hopes and expectations already." The result was boosted as Morrison jettisoned much of his conservative government's ideology to pledge spending worth more than 10 per cent of GDP, including a A$130 billion subsidy to employers to keep staff they might otherwise have let go.

He estimated national output would fall by around 10 per cent in the first half of 2020 with unemployment almost doubling to around 10% by June.

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