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Australia has all but abandoned the COVIDSafe app in favour of QR codes (so make sure you check in)


The COVIDSafe app was pretty popular upon its release, with around 70% of surveyed Australians saying they supported the idea. And it was a good idea at the time. Now? Not so much.
Actual uptake was never high. By May last year, only 44% of those surveyed had actually downloaded it. Plenty on social media are now saying they’ve all but abandoned COVIDSafe in favour of the QR code check-ins done via, for example, the Victorian government app or the Service NSW app.
And when Victoria’s health minister Martin Foley was asked this week whether the COVIDSafe app had been used in responding to the latest outbreak, he said: ....

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DTA shaves $40,000 a month off its COVIDSafe cloud hosting bill


By
Ry Crozier
on May 24, 2021 6:26PM
Tuning efforts applied after sky-high costs criticised.
The Digital Transformation Agency has cut $40,000 a month from its sky-high cloud hosting costs for the COVIDSafe app, less than two months after it was ridiculed for running up a bill of $100,000 a month.
Agency boss Randall Brugeaud told senate estimates on Monday evening that the previous hosting “estimate” had been revised down, apparently after some performance “tuning” of the app.
It still wasn’t clear exactly how the app was architected to be capable of running up such a sizable bill.
“I’d estimated $100,000 per month to host COVIDSafe at the last hearing,” Brugeaud said. ....

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