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| DATE | 2020-11-29 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] The death of our freedom to travel (like it is in
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igital COVID-19 'passport' may take flight for airline travelers: report
Kathianne Boniello
2-3 minutes
November 28, 2020 | 11:42pm
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Tourists queue at the coronavirus sanitary control at Punta Cana
International airport
Tourists wait at the coronavirus sanitary control at Punta Cana
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Get ready to carry two passports while flying in the age of COVID-19:
one from your homeland, and one showing you’ve been vaccinated against
the coronavirus.
An airline industry group is working on a universal digital document
that would show a passenger’s virus test results and whether they’ve
been inoculated, according to The Hill.
The “digital health pass” is in the last stages of development, the
International Air Transport Association said, with the goal of verifying
information seamlessly between airlines, testing labs, governments and
travelers.
“Testing is the first key to enable international travel without
quarantine measures,” Alexandre de Juniac, IATA CEO, said in a statement.
“The second key is the global information infrastructure needed to
securely manage, share and verify test data matched with traveler
identities in compliance with border control requirements,” he said.
The COVID-19 passport would direct travelers to verified testing centers
and labs at their departure points which would match the rules and
standards for wherever they are going, with the hope of avoiding
restrictions on arrival, according to the report.
So far one airline has publicly said it is considering making the
coronavirus vaccine mandatory for travel: Australia’s Qantas, according
to the Daily Mail.
“We are looking at changing our terms and conditions to say for
international travelers that we will ask people to have a vaccination
before they can get on the aircraft,” Qantas CEO Alan Joyce said.
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