Topic: Covidsafe

Australia's $1.5 million COVIDSafe app reportedly failed to identify new close contacts that hadn't already been found by manual tracers. Low download rates and technical glitches limited the app's effectiveness, with some states reporting zero data gathered from confirmed cases. The UK government expressed similar skepticism, noting that no country had yet deployed a fully functioning track-and-trace application.

Australia's $1.5 million COVIDSafe contact tracing app has reportedly failed to identify a single close contact that was not already found by manual tracers. Despite government insistence that the app is functional, low download rates and technical glitches have rendered it ineffective during the surge in Victoria. The discussion notes that the virus appears to follow seasonal climate patterns, affecting the Southern Hemisphere as it enters colder months.