CID wrote this during COVID lockdowns.

Some of this information has changed now.

This is still on our website to show what CID was doing during COVID lockdowns.

The Australian Government has made an app called COVIDSafe.

The app helps keep the community safe from Coronavirus.

You use the app on your mobile phone.

You can choose to have the app or not.

The app records who you have been near.

Health workers contact you if you have been near someone with COVID-19.

Go to App Store or Google Play on your phone.

Download the COVIDSafe app for free.

Agree to share your information with the government.

Add your

• Name and age range
• Postcode and mobile phone number

You can ask someone to help you get the app.

You can delete the app any time.

COVIDSafe uses Bluetooth on your phone.

Turn Bluetooth on and keep it on.

COVIDSafe makes a record of the people you come into close contact with.

The app will use some of your phone battery.

You might need to charge your phone more.

Your information is kept private.

Health workers will not share the name of people who have Coronavirus.

See CID’s Easy Read info on Coronavirus

Visit the Department of Health website www.health.gov.au

Call us on 1800 424 065.

You can download COVIDSafe app to help keep everyone safe.

On your phone go to

• The App Store
• Google Play

This information is made by CID and funded by the National Disability Insurance Agency.