Queensland’s COVID app downloaded a million times in a fortnight

The Queensland government’s official COVID-19 check-in app has been downloaded more than 1 million times in the two weeks since it was officially rolled out.

That is despite the app not being mandatory, although the government has been pushing it as a good alternative to entering a person’s details multiple times across multiple different data systems.

Minister for Digital Economy Leeanne Enoch said more than 7600 businesses had taken up the app, with more than 1 million Queenslanders downloading it to their phones.

“I knew it would have a huge take-up, but I think it surprised many people that we are reaching a million [downloads] already, just 2½ weeks…