It Looks Like The COVIDSafe App Is Still To Really Make A Difference.

This appeared last week: COVIDSafe app didn ’t find contacts Chris Griffith ·         2:00AM January 19, 2021 The federal government ’s COVIDSafe app did not uncover contacts of COVID-19 cases in the recent holiday outbreaks. This period includes the South Australian Parafield outbreak starting in mid November, clusters in NSW on the Northern Beaches and Berala, and community transmission cases in Victoria. The Australian conta cted each state and territory to find out the usage of the app. In NSW a health spokesperson said experience to date in NSW had shown that the COVIDSafe app may be most useful where interviews with contact tracers have not been successful in identifying contacts. “To date, it has not been necessar y to use the app in these latest clusters,” the spokesperson said. A spokesperson for The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Victoria said that from 14 November, out of the 14 cases that had the app, it identified zero... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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