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Singapore Opens up International Travel With Digital Apps

Singapore, as a nation that depends greatly on business, transit and visitors is eager to get past that hurdle and hopes a trial of the IATA Travel Pass will provide the data to reopen international travel.

Release time : 2021-04-15 10:25:24
source : Travel Daily Media

As vaccinations ramp up in many countries and travel bubbles without bursting potential become more realistic talk, fraud is the big thing standing in the way of reopened borders, at least for countries with successful vaccination progress.

Covid-19 vaccines are proving to be incredibly effective in their goals of not only stopping cases, but spread too, and many countries including Singapore are eager to bring back travel and the vital things which come with it, like business and economic opportunity for locals.

Sadly, fake test results and vaccination certificates bring the greatest risk to any opening measures in the short term. Singapore, as a nation that depends greatly on business, transit and visitors is eager to get past that hurdle and hopes a trial of the IATA Travel Pass will provide the data to reopen international travel.

Reports of vaccination fraud and covid-19 testing fraud are more than just overstatement. They’re real concern, with many real-world data points of people being caught, and a worrying number that hasn’t. It is making it hard for countries to open.

As it stands, test results for travel are rudimentary PDF’s with few fail safes. You get a result, you download it, it says “this person has tested negative for covid-19 using this test on this date”, and in the best case there is a digital stamp which looks official and has contact details. It is all too easy for people to create their own, without testing.

Apps such as CommonPass, VeriFLY and IATA’s Travel Pass hope to change that, with results uploaded directly to the app from verified labs, creating a tamper-proof seal to any reported results. You cannot just share a PDF and say it’s real, and the app provides a verifiable QR code to airlines and immigration officials showing that you’re “fit to fly” once, and only once all requirements are fulfilled.

Singapore is set to begin a trial of the IATA Travel Pass, in hopes of squaring the app’s verified

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