By <https://9to5mac.com/author/benlovejoy/> Ben Lovejoy at:
https://9to5mac.com/2021/06/10/iata-travel-pass-app/
An IATA Travel Pass app is expected to go live sometime within the next
couple of weeks, enabling
travelers
to prove to airlines that they have received
COVID-19
vaccinations and/or tested negative for the infection.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) is the trade association
for airlines, representing almost 300 of them .
Most countries and airlines already require proof of a recent negative
COVID-19 test in order to permit travel, and it's expected that this will
extend
to evidence of COVID-19 vaccinations in order to facilitate a return to
pre-pandemic travel levels.
The app is designed to allow you to import test results from
government-recognized laboratories, alongside official government
vaccination certificates.
That means airlines and border officials will only have to check a single
app, with the data presented in a single format, instead of the many
different
apps provided by different countries.
IATA
explained
how the app will work, and the benefits it will offer.
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IATA Travel Pass is a mobile app that helps travelers to store and manage
their verified certifications for COVID-19 tests or vaccines. It is more
secure
and efficient than current paper processes used to manage health
requirements (the International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis,
for example).
This is important given the potentially enormous scale of testing or vaccine
verifications that will need to be securely managed.
The IATA Travel Pass provides: Governments with the means to verify the
authenticity of tests or vaccinations and the identity of those presenting
their
certificates; airlines with the ability to provide accurate information to
their passengers on test requirements and verify that a passenger meets the
requirements for travel; laboratories with the means to issue certificates
to passengers that will be recognized by governments; and travelers with
accurate
information on test requirements, where they can get tested or vaccinated,
and the means to securely convey the results/certificates to airlines and
border
authorities.
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Vaccinations don't offer complete protection against being infected by
COVID-19, but they do dramatically reduce the chances of infection, along
with two
other benefits. First, among those who are still infected, they massively
decrease the severity of symptoms. Second - and crucially for airlines -
vaccinated
people who do still get infected are
far less likely to pass the infection to others.
Reuters
reports that the app is currently in the testing phase, with 60,000 people
enrolled in the beta test.
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"Feedback (has) been very positive. We expect to go live out of the testing
mode in the next couple of weeks," IATA Director General Willie Walsh told
reporters during an online media briefing.
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