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New ‘digital health passport’ bids to assist events in coronavirus recovery
VSTE technology will prove if user has been tested negative or positive for Covid-19.
Posted: April 9 2020By: Ed Dixon
New ‘digital health passport’ bids to assist events in coronavirus recovery
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VST Enterprises Ltd (VSTE), the UK-based cyber security firm, has announced a ‘sports health passport’ platform to help kickstart attendances at all British sporting events over the coming months when the country emerges from the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
VSTE, along with its marketing agency partner Redstrike, says it will work alongside the UK government to deploy the technology, which aims to help move the general public out of isolation ‘as soon as possible’.
With major sports properties facing massive losses due to the Covid-19 lockdown – English soccer’s top-flight Premier League alone could take a UK£1 billion (US$1.2 billion) hit for an incomplete season – the platform can be used at all major sporting events to ensure fan safety once restrictions on mass gatherings are lifted.
VSTE is targeting rights holders with its V-Covid digital health passport, looking to become officially recognised as an accredited supplier.
The platform can then be used in conjunction with a government approved Covid-19 testing kit that confirms and validates whether the holder has been tested negative or positive for coronavirus or has the antibody present. In future updates, it will include confirmation that they are vaccinated.
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Once the test has been completed, the results will be updated to a fan’s digital passport. After that person is vaccinated, it will act as permanent proof of the individual being virus free and protected.
Providing the fan has tested negative, they will be allowed to purchase a ticket for their sporting event by validating their digital health passport, after which they will receive a unique VCode to be scanned before entering a venue.
Supporters attending live events will still be instructed to observe the two-metre social distancing guidelines.
“Football and rugby clubs in the Premier and Football League can issue the ‘V-Covid’ digital health passport app - or an app that uses the VCode technology for the purposes of the health passport - to all fans through their existing fan data