Coronavirus Australia live updates: How COVIDSafe app works

Australia's virus-tracing app has launched, and will be able to track people 1.5 metres away from you for 15 minutes or more. Here's how it works. 

The Federal Government's new COVIDSafe app will go live this afternoon, with the contact tracing app introduced in aim to provide more information about Australia's COVID-19 cases and ensure tracking can be carried out. 

The app is designed to track people who come within 1.5 metres of you for 15 minutes or more - and has been introduced to further assist national health workers and authorities in flattening the virus curve. 

The app is about "finding those cases which may be undiagnosed in the community, helping people get early treatment, helping people have early diagnosis and to ensure that our doctors and nurses, our health workers, our families and friends are protected and that will save lives and protect lives," Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt explained this afternoon. 

If someone you have been in that proximity with then tests positive to coronavirus, the data will be used to notify you. 

It comes as Australia's death toll reaches 84 with the deaths of three people -- one in NSW, one in Victoria and one in Tasmania.

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Australia has now recorded 6694 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 2994 in New South Wales, 1346 in Victoria, 1026 in Queensland, 438 in South Australia, 549 in Western Australia, 207 in Tasmania, 106 in the Australian Capital Territory and 28 in the Northern Territory.

The United States has seen the highest number of deaths for a single country with 53,070 fatalities, followed by Italy at 26,384, Spain 22,902, France 22,614 and the United Kingdom 20,319.

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