That’s five million people of the targeted 16 million mobile phone users in Australia, says Prime Minister Scott Morrison.
He said this was a good response, but “we would like to see a bit more”. The government had previously said a 40% uptake is needed.
The app, released just over a week ago, shares users’ codes with each other via a Bluetooth signal. It’s designed to speed up the contact-tracing process and quickly isolate at-risk people.
“The first job of the COVIDSafe app is to keep you safe and that is its best reason why I would encourage people to continue to do that,” Mr Morrison said.
“The more people we get, the better protection we all have as we go back to work.”
Mr Morrison has stressed that wide usage is almost a prerequisite to the nation exiting lockdown. A review of freedoms is due this Friday. For over a month now, Australia has reported very low daily case numbers after success in containing the spread.
Source:Â bbc.com