The state has also found the COVIDSafe app s effectiveness to be insignificant.
December 14, 2020 03:52 GMT (19:52 PST) | Topic: Innovation
A parliamentary inquiry into Victoria s contact tracing system and testing regime has found that the state was not fit to deal with any escalation of cases, which eventually led to significant errors during its second wave of the pandemic.
This finding, made by the Victorian Legislative Council Legal and Social Issues Committee, came with 46 others along with 19 recommendations that were published in a 260-page report [PDF] on Monday morning.
According to the report, the Victorian government s communicable diseases track and tracing system, called the Public Health Event Surveillance System (PHESS), experienced an unprecedented volume of data during the pandemic, which affected system performance and reporting timeliness .
It said the AU$5.24 million app has significantly under-delivered on the Prime Minister s promise that the app would enable an opening up of the economy in a COVID safe manner.