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NHS app ready
England’s NHS app will be available to use as a vaccine passport from Monday, the government has said – but only for those who have had both doses of the jab. A paper version will also be available – by calling 119 but not through a GP. Both will be available from Monday, 17 May, when the ban on foreign travel is eased. The NHS app is separate to the NHS Covid-19 app, which is used for contact tracing. People can already use the NHS app to: request repeat prescriptions arrange appointments to see their doctor view medical records It […]Read more...
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Ghana to digitally
The Ministry of Health through the Ghana Health Service (GHS) is implementing the digitisation of Covid-19 test results for ease of verification prior to travel and upon arriving in the country. This was made known in a statement issued by the sector minister, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, on Wednesday, April 21. The move is said to make Ghana the first country in the subregion to deploy such system. It is based on the African Union Trusted Travel and ECOWAS BIOMARS standard. The technology platform will be jointly managed by GHS and PanaBIOS Consortium and it covers all authorised Covid-19 PCR testing laboratories in the country. “[It] […]Read more...
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‘We were the
Darrell Myers remembers the surreal feeling last March when nearly all passenger travel shut down, leaving cargo pilots like him flying all alone.” We saw the devastation hit the airline industry,” said Myers, the president of the Luxembourg Airline Pilots Association, who is a captain for Cargolux. “There were moments where my company, we were the only airplanes in the sky.”Like many essential workers, international pilots have had to adjust to a drastically different work environment over the past 12 months. As the pandemic caused the sharpest air traffic decline in history, airlines were forced to lay off or furlough […]Read more...