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Kenya sets the pace in use of tech to ease travel
Thursday January 28 2021
Summary
The blockchain-based clearance solution known as Trusted Travel, has been hailed by the African Union (AU), through its health agency, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) as a game-changer.
Kenya is the first country on the continent to use the innovation for efficient management of air travels, having been approved on January 9 by the Ministry of Health to help verify Covid-19 test certificates for travellers.
Massive changes have been implemented at airports across the globe in the wake of a pandemic that has altered the way we do things in virtually every aspects of our lives. Countries have been compelled to innovate to make airports and travelling safe and help in fighting the Covid-19 menace.
Kenya’s adoption of technology to boost its efforts to contain the spread of Covid-19 has been lauded by the African Union (AU), through its health agency, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC).
The Ministry of Health announced the launch of the online Trusted Travel platform on January 9, becoming the first country on the continent to use the innovation for efficient management of air travels during the Covid-19 pandemic.
“The ministry has collaborated with the AU and Africa CDC, with technical support from PanaBIOS to implement an online system to authenticate and verify laboratory test certificates for travellers,” Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe said.
The East African
Monday January 25 2021
A passengers waits to undergo clearance and body temperature checks after arriving at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya, on August 1, 2020. PHOTO | FILE | NMG
Summary
At the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) in Kenya’s capital Nairobi, passengers disembark from their planes and head straight to the Covid-19 screening bay.
Automated cameras with inbuilt thermometers measure the temperatures of dozens of people in the socially distanced queue, displaying the results on a large screen. Their passports are also scanned to digitally verify their Covid-19 certificates.
Antonia Filmer, a British businesswoman who recently used the innovation at JKIA recently, says the airport s digital coordination is speeding up passenger clearance at the airport compared to airports in Europe.