The check-in Queensland app is here to stay for the time being, despite calls for it to be scrapped.

Queensland Health has stopped naming COVID-19 exposure sites identified through the app.

Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate and Brisbane Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner are among those who called for it to be scrapped over concerns Queenslanders weren’t bothering to check in anyway.

Premier Annastiacia Palaszczuk urged people to continue to use it.

“We are going through a wave at the moment, we are going to be peaking in the next 2 weeks, I need people to continue to check in, that is to ensure vaccinated people are going into certain venues so they can feel safe during this particular period of time, it’s an added layer of confidence for individuals and families.”

CEO of Restaurant and Catering Australia, Wes Lambert, said in time it needs to be wound back.

“They have served their purpose and certainly there are many jurisdictions that either are winding them down or have wound them down, look in the forseeable future we will need to move away from that QR codes, really because no one is tracking and tracing.”

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