Covid App Australia Failure. The New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union has slammed the Government’s controversial COVID-19 tracing app as a monumental failure on every possible measure.. Union spokesperson Louis Houlbrooke says. Coronavirus: COVIDSafe App labelled a ‘failure’ Duration: 01:40 13/07/2020 The COVIDSafe App designed to help trace coronavirus cases has allegedly failed to help authorities in two states. If, and only if you test positive to COVID-19, your State Health department will ask if you have the app, and if you are willing to provide the contact tracing data.
Australia’s app only works 25% of the time on some devices, in particular iPhones. That’s because the Bluetooth “handshake” necessary to register proximity between two phones doesn’t work if the phone screen is locked. This was the exact same problem that caused the UK to abandon its app last month (it’s not clear when it will. If, and only if you test positive to COVID-19, your State Health department will ask if you have the app, and if you are willing to provide the contact tracing data.
Shadow Health Minister Chris Bowen says the Coalition’s COVID-19 tracing app is a failure which hasn’t found a single case despite the number of smartphone-equipped Australians with the app.
Piloted in May, ditched in June: the failure of England's Covid-19 app This article is more than 1 month old How the government came to scrap its contact-tracing app in favour of Apple and Google’s The COVIDsafe tracing app launched by the Australian government in response to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic has been branded a failure. (Alex Ellinghausen. Coronavirus: COVIDSafe App labelled a ‘failure’ Duration: 01:40 13/07/2020 The COVIDSafe App designed to help trace coronavirus cases has allegedly failed to help authorities in two states. Shadow Health Minister Chris Bowen says the Coalition’s COVID-19 tracing app is a failure which hasn’t found a single case despite the number of smartphone-equipped Australians with the app.
