Victoria's new digital contact tracing system broke down so badly that it stopped working days before the state went into lockdown last month. But cracks emerged almost immediately after the system went live in January as it began generating wrong contacts causing delays. Difficulty in entering personal and medical data also led to wrong information being generated for contact tracers and duplicate names being issued, internal sources said. The DHHS denied a 'system-wide' interruption of contact tracing on February 8 but confirmed there had been a problem. A Skybus driver in Melbourne on February 16 during Victoria's snap lockdown.

Source: Daily Mail March 07, 2021 08:09 UTC