Cleared for takeoff? World eyes ‘health passports’

A woman holding a phone displaying a mock-up of China’s new digital health certificate, the first known implementation of a ‘virus passport’ concept also being considered by a number of other countries which shows a user’s vaccination status and virus test results, in Beijing. — AFP

PARIS: From digital certificates to “health passports”, countries and airlines across the globe are hoping to relaunch travel by letting people prove their Covid-free status.

But with patchy vaccine access around the world and mounting concerns over data privacy, questions are swirling about how the measures will work in practice.