Govt wants at least 40% of the population to sign up to make the effort effective. FMTNews Covid19
People cross a quiet road in central Sydney, as people stay away due to restrictions to stop the spread of Covid-19 outbreak.
“We are winning, but we have not yet won,” Australian Health Minister Greg Hunt said at a televised briefing announcing the app’s launch The app’s stored contact data will enable health officials to trace people potentially exposed to infections. A few countries, including South Korea and Israel, are using high-tech methods of contact tracing which involves tracking peoples’ location via phone networks, though such centralised, surveillance-based approaches are viewed as invasive and unacceptable in many countries.
On Sunday, Australia’s states of Queensland and Western Australia said they would slightly ease social distancing rules this week to allow for larger outdoor public gatherings, among others, but officials in Victoria, second most populous state, said they were not ready to relax the state’s hardline restrictions.
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