HealthCaribbean Weekday

Technological solution would facilitate mobility   The Swiss multinational company SICPA is presenting a new technological tool to the Dominican market that allows issuing a vaccination certification or health passport in order to facilitate the mobility of people without the need to submit to restrictions if they are already vaccinated against covid-19, have a negative test or have recently recovered from the disease. The Director of Business Development at SICPA, Cédric Pruche, explained that the new Certus technology has credentials available in different formats: such as smart cards, mobile or printed applications, which facilitate the daily scanning of office employees and tickets to massive events. Besides that, it can be very useful for the Dominican tourism sector. He highlighted that the tool allows certifying three situations: the vaccination status of a […]

New global research from travel technology company Amadeus found that 91 percent of travelers surveyed would be comfortable using a digital health passport for future trips and 74 percent would be willing to store their travel health data electronically, if it enabled them to pass through the airport faster with fewer face-to-face interactions.
 
The study, commissioned by Amadeus and delivered by Censuswide, provides encouraging news for the industry, including that just over two in five travelers (41 percent) said they would book international travel within six weeks of restrictions lifting.

The survey of 9,055 travelers in the U.S., U.K., France, Spain, Germany, India, the United Arab Emirates, Russia and Singapore also contained a note of caution for the industry with more than nine in 10 (93 percent) travelers having some concerns around how their health data for travel would be stored.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) – Guyana yesterday hinted at the possibility of introducin...