Hungary-based company develops COVID passport for smartphones
When an airline, a boat tour company, and even a sports event organiser wants to ensure that service users do not get infected with the coronavirus, it is not an easy task. The so-called “Covid passports” offer a solution to this problem, and one Hungarian company developed a digital passport that can be easily installed on smartphones. TrustOne is an application that can be used to keep track of who had negative COVID-19 tests reliably, and it is now even capable of storing data about vaccinations.
According to Hvg, passengers and guests must be tested within a specified time before the start of the service, and the results of the tests must be checked upon entry. This requires ensuring both that the service users are real (the person using the service is the one who was tested) and the test is authentic (it is not a fake result), Te-Food highlighted.
Originally, this Hungary-based company developed a platform to trace food shipments. Still, now they have come up with a solution that helps private companies and government agencies register and administrate people who have passed the coronavirus test.
TrustOne supports passenger and guest registration, the booking of test dates and even prepayment, the digitalisation of the sampling, managing all communications among different laboratory systems, the automatic transmission of test results, and the verification of compliance with testing at the start of the service – the description reads.
The company’s announcement reveals that Eurofins, one of the world’s largest test laboratory network operators, supports the product and has been using it since last Summer to manage regular testings for Formula 1 and MotoGP teams and local workers. The world’s second-largest ocean-liner company, the Royal Caribbean, has been using it in Singapore since December on the Quantum of the Seas cruise ship, departing every 3-4 days, to manage and register the tests of its few thousand passengers. Those entering the UK can use it to shorten mandatory quarantine.
In Germany, several companies have introduced it by private health care providers for regular testing of corporate employees. The Emirates and Etihad airlines are currently trying it out on passengers in five countries.
In Slovakia, where they use extensive antigen rapid testing every week, it is utilised in three cities (Nyitra, Prešov, Trnava) for full testing of the population – the developers said. As many regions can only be entered with a recent negative coronavirus test, the local police in Nitra also use TrustOne to check the test results of those who want to enter. The Jaguar Land Rover plant in Slovakia also joined the program by testing their employees.
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Based on customer need and feedback, TrustOne was recently updated to handle vaccination data as well.
“As achieving herd immunity depends on many, partly unknown conditions, we believe that in 2021, the combined management and control of adequate testing and vaccination results will be key for the relaunching the travel, hospitality and entertainment industries,” – Márton Vén, Co-founder of TrustOne says.
There is currently a huge international demand for managing test results. However, there are relatively only a few options on the market that provides a solution. The right solution must be both flexible and secure at the same time. TrustOne announced that their upcoming updates will include support for European airports, drive-thru test sites in the US and will also offer support for home testing.
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Source: Hvg.hu
People should remember that as yet we do not know for CERTAIN if the vaccines will keep people from spreading Covid. Because they will have no illness signs themselves after the vaccine BUT can still potentially pick it up & spread it. So having a ‘passport’ that proves that they have been inoculated DOES NOT YET mean that there is no danger from them to others if they stop ‘physical distancing’, stop wearing masks & hand washing because they can be inhaling Covid from sick people. It just means that they themselves will most likely not end up sick in bed, in hospital, or in the mortuary.
As long as not a single system breach to the NEGATIVE test ap occurs at least this is progress. People should however ask “who will store this very private health related information about them & for how long” because if insurance companies with all of their powers get a hold of any of your info they can refuse to sell you coverage or to charge you more than the normal average. Aps are great as tools but you have to monitor them the same way you would with a housekeeper, your politicians and police. There are always evil people looking to profit from “innocents” ( meaning, careless, uneducated people )