COVIDSafe app finally put out of its misery amid cost blowout claims
The new Australian government has officially called a halt to the COVIDSafe contact tracing app amid claims the total cost has risen to over $21 million.
The app, launched with much fanfare in early 2020, was only ever able to identify two positive cases and 17 close contacts that had not previously found by manual contact tracing.
News brief
Filed under Australian eHealth on 10 August 2022. Pulse+IT news briefs cover a single development in Australasian digital health; the weekly editorial column puts the week’s stories in context.
