Coronavirus 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.[2] The app was released by the Department of Health on 29 March 2020,[3] and decommissioned two years later on 31 August 2022.[4] 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.[5] Due to the short development period of two weeks, the app initially served primarily as an aggregate of links to official government websites.[6] 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.[7][8]
This article is about the app. For information on the outbreak in Australia, see COVID-19 pandemic in Australia.Developer(s)
- Delv Pty Ltd
- Digital Transformation Agency
29 March 2020
- Kotlin (Android)
- Swift (iOS)
English
On 14 April 2020 a separate contact tracing app, COVIDSafe, was announced based on Singapore's TraceTogether app and BlueTrace protocol.[9][10]