Swedish company offers a Covid pass that gets under the skin


Sjoblad, scans the implant in his forearm with a smartphone to reveal his health pass. A company has come up with a microchip that can be inserted under the skin so that users can carry their Covid passports in their arm. — AFP

STOCKHOLM: Dystopian nightmare or a simple convenience? A Swedish company implanting microchips under the skin has is promoting its devices for use as a Covid-19 health pass in a country with thousands of early adopters.

"I think it's very much part of my own integrity to have myself chipped and keep my personal data there with me, I actually feel that it's even more controlled on my end," Amanda Back, a Stockholm resident who has implanted the subcutaneous chip developed by DSruptive Subdermals, told AFP.

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