The Australian Labor government has scrapped the country’s troubled COVIDSafe mobile app, which was launched in a rush in April 2020 to help deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Estimated to cost $21 million (US$14.61 million) of taxpayer funds, the app has been criticised for performance issues and for only identifying 17 close contacts, according to new Health Minister Mark Butler, who called it a “colossal waste.”
