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Australia’s CovidSafe app has been scrapped and branded a “failure” just two years after it was launched at huge expense by the previous Scott Morrison government.

On Wednesday, health minister Mark Butler urged people to delete the application and called it a “colossal waste of more than $21 million of taxpayers’ money”.

The CovidSafe app was launched in 2020 at the peak of the pandemic by former prime minister Scott Morrison, who called it “as essential as putting on sunscreen”.

The app cost the government AUS$21m (£12.2m) to produce, roll out and host, and was designed to help manual contact tracers identify Covid infections around them.

However, the app was successful in identifying just two positive infections that had not been found by manual contact tracing, Mr Butler said, meening it cost more than AUS$10m per infection traced

The app was riddled with technical difficulties, including requiring iPhone users to keep their phones unlocked at all times, issues with bugs, and the fact users had to actively give permission for their data to be added and used.

The app will be formally decommissioned on 16 August, but it was updated on Tuesday night to remove all its functionality. Users opening the app are now greeted with a message: “Please uninstall CovidSafe

An analysis published by the Lancet Public Health journal concluded that CovidSafe created extra work for contact tracers and did not make any meaningful contribution to Australia’s Covid response.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/australia-covidsafe-contact-tracing-app-b2142932.html%3famp