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287: 43: 57: 263:'s "Health and Fitness" category. Due to the short development period of two weeks, the app initially served primarily as an aggregate of links to official government websites. Shortly after an update was released adding a voluntary "isolation registration" form that collected the location, name, age, mobile phone number, isolation start date, and various other details about users who were self isolating. 335:, moving from a card based interface with a navigation drawer, to a tab and folder based one. With the replacement of the drawer with tabs on Android, the two apps gained a consistent navigation model. A news feed showing the latest news items has been moved to the home screen, with many of the cards that were previously present there moved to the tab bar or nested within a folder. Additionally, a custom 339:
has been introduced, allowing for the embedding of native articles and content. The release on 9 July 2020 introduced a COVID-19 clinic finder and restriction checker. The clinic finder was built on top of the Australian Government's existing
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app, it did not have such features at release. The day after launch an update was released adding a voluntary isolation registration form, and a web version was released to accompany it.
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on 29 March 2020, and decommissioned two years later on 31 August 2022. Over its lifetime, the app was downloaded over a million times and was initially ranked first in the
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On 30 September 2020, the contract for the development of the Coronavirus Australia app concluded, effectively ending major development of the app.
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Replaces the display of 'Recovered' cases with 'Active cases' to keep the numbers consistent with data released by Department of Health.
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Later, on 9 April 2020, another update was released adding an "essential information" tab and link to various translations of
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Offline mode fixed in Android versions - now displays content when device is not connected to the internet.
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The app was developed by recruitment house Delv Pty Ltd over a period of two weeks. Delv was hired by the
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news. The essential information tab added dot points summarising information about the coronavirus.
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Coronavirus Australia decompilation; au/gov/health/covid19/cms/backend/CMS.kt; 29 May 2020
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This article is about the app. For information on the outbreak in Australia, see
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UI overhaul and consistency improvements between Android & iOS
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A screenshot of Coronavirus Australia prior to its 28 May redesign
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Added the "essential information" tab and the SBS news banner
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Minor changes to notifications to improve reliable delivery.
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Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care
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designed to allow users to access information about the
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Introduction of clinic finder and restrictions checker
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Firestore and Remote Config to fetch dynamic content.
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Index

COVID-19 pandemic in Australia
COVIDSafe


Developer(s)
Digital Transformation Agency
Final release
Operating system
Android
iOS
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Proprietary software
www.health.gov.au/resources/apps-and-tools/coronavirus-australia-app
app
Australian Government
COVID-19 pandemic in Australia
Department of Health
Apple App Store
COVIDSafe
TraceTogether
BlueTrace

Digital Transformation Agency
Singapore
open-source
TraceTogether
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