Get the app and save lives

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Dear Editor,

I write to encourage readers to sign up to the COVIDSafe app which will support our nation’s health response to the coronavirus pandemic and save lives.

Like hundreds of thousands of other Australians, I downloaded the app when registrations opened and urge everyone to get on board.

While this is voluntary, the more people who sign up to the app, the sooner we will be able to get through this pandemic.

The app will help public health officials minimise the spread of the coronavirus by providing automated contact tracing information. Rather than undertake a laborious manual process, COVIDSafe will speed up the process of identifying people who have been in close contact with someone diagnosed with coronavirus.

This will not only help to minimise the spread of this highly infectious virus, it will also protect our doctors, nurses and other frontline health workers.

Across regional Victoria, communities have done an extraordinary job at flattening the curve by complying with social distancing and other restrictions to contain the spread of the virus.

For more information, please go to the website health.gov.au and, together, we can and will get through this.

Sincerely, thank you.

Sarah Henderson

Liberal Senator for Victoria