VACCINE Passports & Digital ID

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Coming Soon: The ‘Vaccine Passport’

In the near future, travel may require digital documentation showing that passengers have been vaccinated or tested for the coronavirus. Answers to your questions. Among governments and those in the travel industry, a new term has entered the vocabulary: vaccine passport. One of President Biden’s executive orders aimed at curbing the pandemic asks government agencies […]

Australia – Proof of Vaccination App

Proving you’ve had the COVID jab could be as simple as tapping your smartphone, under plans being finalised by the Australian federal government. Digital “proof of vaccination” certificates will be stored and displayed on phone apps as part of the federal government’s plans for the national coronavirus vaccine rollout. The Express Plus Medicare app and […]

Blair pushes for G7 – COVID Vaccine Passport Scheme

Former prime minister Tony Blair has called on Boris Johnson to use the G7 to push a global coronavirus vaccine passport scheme. In a report published by the Tony Blair Institute (TBI) the former Labour leader reportedly said that current travel restrictions were “disjointed” and urged the UK to push the idea of a “global […]

Iceland Becomes First Schengen Country to Grant COVID-19 Vaccination Certificates

Starting from January 21, 2021, Iceland authorities will issue ‘COVID-19 vaccination certificates’ to all Icelandic citizens who receive the second jab of the vaccine against the virus. Iceland thus becomes the first country in the Schengen Area to initiate the practice of issuing these documents to persons vaccinated against COVID-19, SchengenVisaInfo.com reports. “The aim is […]

IATA Travel Pass – Digital Health Pass & Registry

IATA Travel Pass will manage and verify the secure flow of necessary testing or vaccine information among governments, airlines, laboratories, and travelers. Global registry of health requirements Global registry of testing/vacc centers Lab App Contactless Travel App Read Full Article Here airlines.iata.org

UN Announces Biometric Digital ID Wallet

The United Nations has rolled out a biometric digital wallet and an announcement that one of its specialized agencies The International Civil Aviation Organization is one step closer to a internationally recognized digital travel credential. Can you see where this is going? Every aspect of our lives will be centralized digitally using biometrics and in […]

Digital travel credential one step closer with ICAO model approval

Specifications for the first digital travel credential (DTC) type have been endorsed by the ICAO Technical Advisory Group for the Traveller Identification Programme (TAG/TRIP), bringing digital identity-based travel one step closer to reality, according to the International Civil Aviation Organization’s (ICAO’s) Uniting Aviation. Read Full Article Here biometricupdate.com

Replacing a conventional passport with digital travel credentials

A digital travel credential (DTC) is intended to temporarily or permanently substitute a conventional passport with a digital representation of the traveller’s identity, which can, in turn, be validated using the travel document issuing authority’s public key infrastructure. Read Full Article Here unitingaviation.com

New COVID-19 Security Measures Will Make Health a Prerequisite for Travel

A new digital certificate called CommonPass, designed to serve as a clearance mechanism for passengers based on a health diagnosis underwent its first transatlantic test on October 21 under the watchful eye of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at Heathrow Airport in London. Read Full Article Here mintpressnews.com […]

CommonPass – Travel

CommonPass, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and launched by the World Economic Forum and Commons Project Foundation, has come to fruition. Trials begin early October 2020 in London, New York, Hong Kong and Singapore. Countries will need to be able to trust that a traveller’s record of a COVID PCR test or vaccination administered in another country is valid. Countries will […]

Qantas looks at smartphone app for COVID-19 ‘vaccine passport’

A COVID-19 “vaccination passport” that Qantas and other airlines will likely require for international flights is set to be contained within a smartphone app, as positive news about the development of several vaccines buoys hopes of a return to quarantine-free travel. Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce said on Monday his airline was looking to make it compulsory […]

Airtravel – Vaccination

Flights from Australia to United Kindom & United States will potentially open up end of 2021. “For some of our big destination like the United States and the UK, it’s going to need a vaccine given the high prevalence of the virus in both of those locations,” Qantas Group boss Alan Joyce said at the company’s AGM […]