The app's stored contact data will enable health officials to trace people potentially exposed to infections. "No one has access to that, not even yourself ... only a state public health official can be given access to that data." A legislative directive ensuring that will be proposed to the parliament in May, the health ministry said on the app's website on Sunday. Australia reported 16 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, which took its total to 6,703, according to health ministry data. "We have been very clear on from the beginning that no tracking app provides a silver bullet," Ardern said earlier this month.

Source: Dhaka Tribune April 26, 2020 07:41 UTC