COVID-19 Passporting

We are in a Catch-22 situation. If we relax the lockdown, we risk reinfecting the population. But we day we are in lockdown our economy crumble one bit more, and is likely to get to a point that it could collapse completely. So, politicians are looking to the turning point of the curve, and then aiming to relax some of the lockdown conditions. But what then? Should each country test at the border? How do we make sure we can safely get people back to work? Well testing and passporting could be one solution, but it takes a bit of effort from politicians to do it in a correct manner, and a way which protects the rights of privacy for citizens. No scheme will ever be perfect, but a digital passport for COVID-19 may allow us a way to build a world of digital certainty, and replace our paper-based approaches.

In order to properly define trust within the attestations around COVID-19, we need to define a trusted network of testers, and for each of these testers to sign a digital attestation of COVID-19 (either positive, clear or undetermined). Each of the testers thus can provide Alice with the digital attestation with her credentials, or where it could be stored in a trusted location: