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On January 9, 2021, the Government of the Republic of Kenya announced the launch of its Trusted Travel platform, based in Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Trusted Travel platform, becoming the first country to adopt the platform for travel management during the COVID-19-19 pandemic.
“The ministry has collaborated with the African Union and Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, with technical support from PanaBIOS to implement an online system to authenticate and verify laboratory test certificates for travelers, ”said Mr. Mutahi Kagwe, Cabinet Secretary of the Ministry of Health.
In October 2020, the African Union officially launched the Trusted Travel platform as part of the wider Trusted Travel Initiative during a joint ministerial meeting of the health, transport and information and communication ministers of the African Union member states.
Developed by PanaBIOS Consortium and Econet Group as a public-private partnership with Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Trusted Travel is a first-class digital solution to help Member States verify COVID-19-19 test certificates for travelers and to help harmonize entry and exit controls across the continent.
The platform provides information on travel requirements at ports of departure and destination and access to a list of government-approved laboratories for COVID-19-19 tests in African countries. Allows travelers to upload their COVID-19-19 online test results for easy verification by port health and travel officials and aid in detecting forged certificates. This, in turn, will help build confidence in the test results among government authorities, airlines, transportation service operators, and other transportation sector stakeholders across the continent.
“As our economies, schools and borders reopen, Africa needs a harmonized approach to reducing the risk of COVID-19-19 transmission. That is why we launched the COVID-19-19 trusted travel portal as an innovative digital tool to help Member States upload and verify test results and harmonize entry and exit requirements to avoid cross-border transmission on the continent, ”said HE Amira Elfadil Mohammed, Commissioner for Social Affairs of the African Union. Commission.
Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention The Trusted Travel Initiative enables countries to keep their borders open for economic activities while preventing or minimizing the spread of COVID-19-19.
“We are in a critical phase of the pandemic. As economies reopen and travel resumes, we must pay attention to preventing transmission, preventing deaths, and preventing harm by opening our borders carefully and cautiously, and the Trusted Travel portal is the tool that helps Member States need to help them open safely. ”Said Dr. John Nkengasong, Africa Director Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Trusted Travel platform offers a broad set of technologies that will allow Member States to verify the authenticity of test results and vaccine certificates issued by other countries. Without such a system, the proliferation of fake and user-tampered vaccine certificates and tests will undermine efforts to minimize cross-border transmission while allowing cross-border economic activities to take place. The platform is secure and has been developed using international cybersecurity standards and data protection protocols.
Other partners involved in overseeing the implementation of the Trust Travel Initiative include the World Health Organization, the International Civil Aviation Organization, the United Nations Development Program, the African Civil Aviation Commission, the Council of African International Airports, the African Airlines Association and the International Air Transport Association.
African Union through Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in collaboration with Panabios and Econet, will continue to provide technical support to the Government of Kenya in the implementation of the platform and ask other Member States to connect to the platform for the detection and verification of test results to ensure a safe public health corridor throughout the territory. continent.
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of the African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention).
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