Covid-19 immunity passport tests to begin in UK
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Live tests of a Covid-19 immunity and vaccination passport are beginning in the UK, with the system’s backers saying their technology enables coronavirus test results or vaccination status to be registered and proved without disclosing their identity and without needed extensive and costly new back-end infrastructure. The firms said this should give the health services the confidence to then deploy the system at scale to benefit citizens. “Unlike some other digital solutions for Covid-19, this technology reduces the burden on frontline services and cost-effectively assures a secure and safe way to enable the return to work, return to school and return to the kind of life that people want to lead.” IProov CEO Andrew Bud added: “Ensuring consumer trust, security and privacy is essential to the success of projects in this space. “Our genuine presence assurance technology secures the link between the citizen and Mvine’s test status solution in this project, which we think can make an important contribution to forming the nation’s response to the Covid-19 crisis,” he said. The project is the fruit of a government-backed funding programme – initially announced in April 2020 during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, and later expanded in its financial scope – to develop new technology-enabled ways to ensure the continuation (or resumption) of normal life.
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