Health minister Mark Butler released a statement claiming hisThe COVIDSafe app was introduced during the first wave of the pandemic in 2020 by the Morrison government with hopes it could contact trace close contacts.The COVIDSafe App - once touted as a must-have for all citizens - is being decommissioned.
"This failed app cost taxpayers more than $10 million in developing the app, a further $7 million on advertising and marketing, $2.1 million on upkeep and more than $2 million on staff," Butler said.The new government has scrapped the COVIDSafe app. "Since it was launched in April 2020 only two positive COVID-19 cases were identified through the app, which were not found by manual contact tracers," Butler said.
Butler said there were 7.9 million registrations on the app between April 2020 and May 2022 but fewer than 800 registrants consented to the government using their data for contact tracing.
We could nearly have put a flag pole on the Sydney harbour Bridge for that money. What a waste.🤷♂️
People need to stop paying voluntary taxes 😁 just pay GST.
9news you are complicit in this as you promoted it..... Maybe you should repay this to the tax payers....only 21 mil. What about all the other waste of money you promoted... Your news promoted the whole covid thing like it was the end of the earth and we are all going to die...
So basically scomo owes everyone in the country $1 for this particular stuff up, wonder how much we could all tally up if we count his other expensive failures?
Telling strangers your personal health information is akin to asking someone’s sexual history. Also causes discrimination
But what will the Covid maniacs do now🤣💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉😂
We told use this before it come out was the biggest waste of money an that stupid covid camp queensland is building
It's government What did people expect?
Never had it
I think the quarantine buildings in qld were worse
And this: $230 million Queensland tax payers dollars disappeared in a puff of smoke, for the Wellcamp Concentration Camp, with no accountability. Wake up Queenslanders. Or GregHuntMP buying 150 million injections.
Which ironically, when in opposition, labour criticised the then government for not doing contact tracing and now criticises them for doing.
Pretty sure the media were telling everyone to install it back in the day to 'do their bit' wonder how much cash changed hands?
🤣🤣🤣🤣 22mill is a drop in the ocean compared to what they actually waste..
The one thing the app does is gives you the daily COVID infections statistics