#Covid certificate

An employee at a Nordisk Film cinema in Copenhagen checks the "Coronapas” of a customer as they come to watch a film on the first day that cinemas in the Danish capital reopened on May 6, 2021. Photo: Tom Little / AFP
An employee at a Nordisk Film cinema in ... […]
Coronavirus, Health, Transportation and mobility, Infographic, Video 3D

Picking up pace: Health passes in Europe

Health passes are increasingly being adopted by European countries and limit entry to certain public places to those who have been vaccinated, recovered from Covid-19 or tested negative
3 months ago
The IATA reported last week that on average, people travelling at peak times now stay twice as long at airports -- three hours -- compared with 2019. Photo: Stephane De Sakutin / AFP
The IATA reported last week that on aver... […]
Coronavirus, Health, Tourism, Transportation and mobility, Video 3D

European lobby groups fear summer chaos at airports

A year after the pandemic emptied airports, air travel associations fear chaos during Europe's summer holiday season as travellers wait hours before boarding planes due to health checks
5 months ago
Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis shows the proposed EU digital Covid Certificate during a statement to the press with the European Council President Charles Michel in Athens on May 28, 2021. Photo: Louisa Gouliamaki / AFP
Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis shows the p... […]
Coronavirus, Digitalization, Health, Video 3D

A peek behind the IT curtain of EU’s ‘vaccine passport’

From video calls involving 130 people to no-shows at the rehearsal, Josef Lieven and his software engineers faced their share of challenges on the road to Europe's digital Covid certificate
5 months ago
A passenger shows her Covid-19 test certificate on a platform of a train station in Milan on April 16, 2021, as the first Covid-free 'Frecciarossa' train prepares to run on the Milan-Rome route. Photo: Piero Cruciatti / AFP
A passenger shows her Covid-19 test cert... […]
Coronavirus, Digitalization, Health, Tourism, Transportation and mobility, Video 3D

EU inches closer to Covid certificate for travel

The European Parliament has agreed its position on how a Covid certificate should work, bringing the EU closer to launching a document to open up travel within the bloc
6 months ago