An Australia–NZ travel bubble needs a unified COVID contact-tracing app. We're not there.
- Written by Mahmoud Elkhodr, Lecturer in Information and Communication Technologies, CQUniversity Australia
New Zealand’s coronavirus contact-tracing app COVID Tracer was revamped yesterday.
It now uses the Bluetooth-based Google/Apple exposure notification (GAEN) framework. This allows Android and Apple (iOS) devices to communicate via a contact-tracing mechanism built into the devices’ operating systems.
Meanwhile, Australia continues to use...





