Estonia starts testing digital immunity passport for workplaces
20 May, 2020
Estonia has began to test among the world's first digital immunity passports, created by a team including founders of global tech startups Transferwise and Bolt, seeking a safer go back to workplaces following a coronavirus lockdown.
An electronic immunity passport collects testing data and enables people to talk about their immunity status with an authorized, like an employer, using a temporary QR-code produced after digital authentication.
"Digital immunity passport aims to decrease fears and stimulate societies around the world to move on with their lives amidst the pandemic," said Taavet Hinrikus, founder of Transferwise and an associate of Back again to Work, the non-governmental organization developing the passport.
Many countries and companies are rushing to develop software for contact-tracing.
In addition to technology entrepreneurs, Back to Work includes local medical experts and state officials. Radisson hotels and food producer PRFoods are among the first companies that have began to test the passport.
"We would like every solution to have our employees back again to work and clients sleeping in our hotels again," said Kaido Ojaperv, CEO of Radisson Blu Sky Hotel at Tallinn.
Estonia, which has up to now recorded 64 deaths because of COVID-19 and 1,791 infections, has began to ease the lockdown measures this month, and opened the other day with Lithuania and Latvia the first "travel bubble" within europe.
Source: www.thejakartapost.com
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