Am I allowed to fly to Hong Kong?
Do I need to get a COVID test before I leave?
What will happen when I land? Â
Will I be allowed to stay?
As countries around the world work to overcome the COVID pandemic and restart their economies, they all face the challenge of how to reopen their borders and allow international travel to resume while protecting their populations’ health. Already, countries are beginning to develop bilateral or regional agreements to allow some travel to resume.
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However, without coordination and harmonization, these disparate efforts will lead to a patchwork of fragmented policies and procedures and make international travel confusing and uncertain long into the future.Â
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The Commons Project, a non-profit public trust, established with support from the Rockefeller Foundation to build digital services for the common good, will be collaborating with the World Economic Forum and a broad coalition of public and private partners around the world to develop and launch a standard global model to enable people to document their COVID-19 status to facilitate international travel and border crossing.
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A collaborative of governments, health authorities, airlines, airports and international organizations — working to find common solutions that can work for all.
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Kicking off with a 90-min virtual gathering
Thursday, July 9th
7:00am PDT Â | Â 10:00am EDT Â | Â 3:00pm BST Â | Â 4:00pm CET Â | Â 5:00pm EAT Â | Â 7:30pm ISTÂ |Â 10:00pm CSTÂ | Â 11:00pm JST
More information to come.