The health minister urges people to delete the contact-tracing app, which identified just two infections.
A multi-million dollar Australian app used to track Covid contacts has been decommissioned and branded "a failure" after identifying only two unique infections.
COVIDsafe was previously touted "as essential as putting on sunscreen" by former Prime Minister Scott Morrison.The app, which was first launched in April 2020 and cost $14m , was designed to help manual contract tracers identify positive Covid infections. "It is clear this app failed as a public health measure and that's why we've acted to delete it," he said.
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