The Queensland government will mandate its new COVID-Safe check-in app for most pubs, restaurants, and cafes across the state from May 1 to help contact tracing during outbreaks of the CCP virus. Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said the check-in app would provide “relevant, legible and timely” information to help respond to an outbreak of COVID-19, the disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus. She named testing and contact tracing as her government’s best tools in fighting the pandemic. “Over the past 12 months, we have relied on our team of contact tracers to quickly identify and assist anyone who may have been exposed to the virus,” Palaszczuk said. “That’s why, from Saturday 1 May 2021, we’re making Check In Qld mandatory for most hospitality businesses in Queensland,” she said. The announcement came the night before the Palaszczuk government lifted a three-day snap lockdown of Greater Brisbane after two clusters of …