Coronavirus Australia
app released by the Australian Government designed to allow users to access information about the 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Australia
Coronavirus Australia was an app released by the Australian Government designed to allow users to access information about the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. The app was released by the Department of Health on 29 March 2020, and decommissioned two years later on 31 August 2022. Over its lifetime, the app was downloaded over a million times and was initially ranked first in the Apple App Store's "Health and Fitness" category. Due to the short development period of two weeks, the app initially served primarily as an aggregate of links to official government websites. Shortly after an update was released adding a voluntary "isolation registration" form that collected the location, name, age, mobile phone number, isolation start date, and various other details about users who were self isolating.
On 14 April 2020 a separate contact tracing app, COVIDSafe, was announced based on Singapore's TraceTogether app and BlueTrace protocol.
Development
The app was developed by recruitment house Delv Pty Ltd over a period of two weeks. Delv was hired by the Digital Transformation Agency for A$1.85 million, and the Department of Health for A$1.438 million, totaling over A$3 million. The app launched on 29 March 2020, three days after it was first announced publicly. Although initially rumoured to have similar functions to Singapore's open-source TraceTogether app, it did not have such features at release.
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