On Monday, the government announced that approximately two million Australians downloaded a new mobile app intended to make the tracing of coronavirus simpler, ignoring privacy issues in the hope of speeding up the end of social-distancing lockdowns.
The app works by using Bluetooth to detect other users nearby.
If a user tests positive, anyone who has been near them can then be notified, making rapid tracking of the disease much easier.
The country of 25 million people has reported just over 6,700 cases of coronavirus following extensive monitoring, with the incidence of new infections dropping to 10-20 daily.
Along with governments around the world, Australian officials are under growing pressure to relax travel restrictions and public gatherings that have been placed to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has said that many of the restrictions, including a ban on non-residential travel to Australia, will last until at least September.
There has been growing concern about what Morrison’s conservative government will do with the data.
Parallel to the introduction of the app, the Australian authorities have ramped up coronavirus testing and made the tests accessible to those with flu-like symptoms.
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