Covid-19: More than one million Australians download coronavirus tracing app

By early Monday morning, more than 1.13 million Australians had downloaded the app, Hunt told Channel Nine. More than a million of the registrations were in the first four hours of the app’s launch. — AFP

Australia’s coronavirus contact-tracing app was downloaded more than one million times in the first hours of its release, despite privacy and security concerns.

Health Minister Greg Hunt launched the COVIDSafe app on Sunday evening. It aims to give an early alert to people who may have come into contact with somebody infected with novel coronavirus.