{"id":39739,"date":"2020-04-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/government-releasing-covid-19-tracking-app\/"},"modified":"2020-04-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T14:30:00","slug":"government-releasing-covid-19-tracking-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/government-releasing-covid-19-tracking-app\/","title":{"rendered":"The Government Is Releasing A COVID-19 Tracking App"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>A new coronavirus tracing app could help bring an end to isolation restrictions in Australia.<\/h3>\n&nbsp;\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The \u2018TraceTogether\u2019 app uses Bluetooth technology to record contact with people so that if they test positive for COVID-19 users can be notified.<\/span>\n&nbsp;\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Government Services Minister Stuart Robert told Sunrise on Friday:<\/span>\n&nbsp;\n<blockquote><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\u201c(It\u2019s) simply an app or digital way of replicating a manual process<\/span>\n&nbsp;\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\u201cRight now if you test positive for COVID-19 health officials will sit down and talk you through who you\u2019ve been in contact with.<\/span>\n&nbsp;\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\u201cThe COVID trace app simply digitises that process, so if your app has been within 15 minutes duration of someone, within 1.5 metres proximity, there\u2019ll be a swapping of phone numbers.<\/span>\n&nbsp;\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\u201cThat will stay on your phone and then of course if you test positive, you\u2019ll give consent, and those numbers will be provided securely to health professionals and they\u2019ll be able to call people you\u2019ve been in contact with.<\/span>\n&nbsp;\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\u201cIt\u2019s a health app and it\u2019s designed to give you a sense of peace of mind that if you\u2019ve been in close contact with someone, health officials will call you.\u201d<\/span>\n<\/blockquote>\n&nbsp;\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The app will be released in Australia in the next two weeks.<\/span>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Authorities are assuring Australians there is no movement tracking or surveillance involved with a new app designed to help identify potential COVID-19 cases. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/auspol?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#auspol<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iaiqzRgfd8\">https:\/\/t.co\/iaiqzRgfd8<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Sunrise (@sunriseon7) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sunriseon7\/status\/1250912750064160768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 16, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new coronavirus tracing app could help bring an end to isolation restrictions in Australia. &nbsp; The \u2018TraceTogether\u2019 app uses Bluetooth technology to record contact with people so that if they test positive for COVID-19 users can be notified. &nbsp; Government Services Minister Stuart Robert told Sunrise on Friday: &nbsp; \u201c(It\u2019s) simply an app or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":39740,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[246,245],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-39739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-fiveaa-app","tag-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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