Global InformationCOVIDSafe information
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| Initial release | 26 April 2020 |
| Final release | 2.9
/ 10 December 2021 |
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| Operating system | Android, iOS |
| Platform | Amazon Web Services[6] |
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| Available in | English |
| Type | Digital contact tracing |
| Licence | Proprietary, source code released[12][13] |
| Website | www |
COVIDSafe[14][15] was a digital contact tracing app released by the Australian Government on 26 April 2020[16][17] to help combat the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.[18] The app was intended to augment traditional contact tracing by automatically tracking encounters between users and later allowing a state or territory health authority to warn a user they have come within 1.5 metres (4 ft 11 in) with an infected person for 15 minutes or more.[19] To achieve this, it used the BlueTrace and Herald protocol, originally developed by the Singaporean Government and VMWare respectively,[20][21] to passively collect an anonymised registry of near contacts.[22] The efficacy of the app was questioned over its lifetime, ultimately identifying just 2 confirmed cases by the time it was decommissioned on 16 August 2022.[23]
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- ^ "COVIDSafe app to get overhaul to capture all close contacts". Australian Financial Review. 29 November 2020. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
- ^ McDonald, Kate (30 November 2020). "DTA to add Herald Bluetooth protocol to COVIDSafe app". Pulse+IT. Archived from the original on 10 December 2020. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
- ^ Barbaschow, Asha. "A Bluetooth revamp touted to fix Australia's COVIDSafe app connectivity flaws". ZDNet. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
- ^ Agency, Digital Transformation (19 December 2020). "COVIDSafe uses the Herald Protocol to improve app performance". www.dta.gov.au. Retrieved 24 April 2021.
- ^ Taylor, Josh (29 April 2020). "Covidsafe app: how to download Australia's coronavirus contact tracing app and how it works". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
- ^ "Terms and Conditions". covidsafe.gov.au. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
- ^ jasoncartwright (26 April 2020). "The Government's COVID-19 tracking app is called CovidSafe and is launching today!". techAU. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
- ^ "COVIDSafe - Apps on Google Play". play.google.com. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
- ^ "Privacy concerns as Australia's controversial coronavirus tracing app nears launch". SBS News. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
- ^ "The coronavirus tracing app has been released. Here's what it looks like and what it wants to do". ABC News. 26 April 2020. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
- ^ Editor, Political; Probyn, rew (14 April 2020). "The Government wants to track us via our phones. And if enough of us agree, coronavirus restrictions could ease". ABC News. Retrieved 17 April 2020.
{{cite web}}:|last1=has generic name (help) - ^ "COVIDSafe: New app to slow the spread of coronavirus | Prime Minister of Australia". www.pm.gov.au. Archived from the original on 3 May 2020. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
- ^ Bogle, Ariel (17 April 2020). "Five questions we need answered about the government's coronavirus contact tracing app". ABC News. Retrieved 17 April 2020.
- ^ "COVIDSafe captures close contacts with the new Herald Protocol". Digital Transformation Agency. 30 November 2020. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
- ^ Farr, Malcolm; Hurst, Daniel (14 April 2020). "Australian government plans to bring in mobile phone app to track people with coronavirus". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 17 April 2020.
- ^ "In its lifetime, $21 million COVIDSafe app detected just two confirmed cases". ABC News. 10 August 2022. Retrieved 10 August 2022.