Want To Fly? You’ll Need This Blockchain-Backed Health Passport

Forbes June 5, 2020
Carlton Reid

To travel internationally shortly you won’t just need a paper passport; you’ll need a digital one. This will be a smartphone app—secured by blockchain protocols—that certifies you’re not infected with COVID-19.

This is one of the takeaways from a webinar held on June 5 with Cristina Del Río Fresen of the Canary Islands. The leader of the Ministry of Tourism’s Global Tourism Safety Lab told travel industry executives and journalists on the Zoom call that a July flight from Madrid to the Canary Islands will be a world first: it will test a digital health passport app that will use data from health authorities to certify that travelers are free of COVID-19.

The privately-developed Health iCard App—or Hi+ Card—has received...

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