Rob Mitchell (McEwen, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Australia has had some 27,000 confirmed cases of COVID, but only 17 have been uniquely detected by the DTA's COVIDSafe app. This record has been rightly criticised by medical and tech experts, as well as by senior state government figures of all political persuasions. Despite this, your government has said there are no plans underway to vary it in any major way. In fact, there are no plans at all to look at the Apple-Google API, which would greatly improve the bluetooth functionality and effectiveness. So the questions that need to be asked and need to be answered are: Have you or your ministerial colleagues instructed the DTA to lessen the 15-minute exposure setting so the app may detect more COVID contacts and be more effective in the fight against COVID? If not, why not?

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