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Follow RT on The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has announced that it will launch a Covid-19 travel pass by March, which it says will give travelers a way to display test results and confirmation they’ve received a vaccine.
The measure, dubbed the IATA Travel Pass, is aimed at providing government, airlines and travelers with a streamlined process to ensure there is
“accurate information, secure identification and verified data” available to meet all relevant Covid-19 restrictions.
The IATA has outlined a timeline for the full rollout of its travel pass, with initial efforts underway at Singapore Airlines while a further 20 airlines are testing the app. More companies are set to start using it in the next few months, the organization said, and it aims to have the full pass ready to go live at the end of March.
France, which has close links with its former colonies in west Africa, Ms
Touraine said the country’s health service was prepared to tackle the
threat.
Frontières warned of an “epidemic out of control”, Ms Touraine told the
newspaper Le Parisien there was little risk of it spreading to France.
“At the moment, the risk of the virus coming to Europe or to France is low,”
Ms Touraine insisted. “We are taking steps so that our country won’t be
affected.”
“prevention”.
know how to diagnose and deal with any patient suffering from fever who has
just returned from one of the countries affected by the epidemic,” she said.