Vottun, a company that specializes in the certification and traceability of information on the blockchain, has released a digital health passport that could enable employees currently in lockdown to become back to work.

The digital credentials arrangement — known as an 'Immunity Passport' — created past Vottun records your immunity status on the blockchain which can easily exist checked.

Rohan Hall, Chief Executive Officeholder (CEO) at Vottun, told Cointelegraph the passport "can be verified at whatever fourth dimension using cryptography past whatsoever mobile phone that can read a QR lawmaking". Credentials "are securely stored" and "immutable" and the system is as elementary as using a mobile boarding pass for a flight.

The technology is currently beingness rolled out in Kingdom of spain in conjunction with PwC. In the The states, Vottun reports it has already "had early on conversations" with the CDC and Dr. Anthony Fauci, Managing director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

Even so the concept itself is controversial, with some likening immunity certificates to German soldiers demanding papers, while residents in People's republic of china take wondered how else the data might be used.

Bringing united states back to normal

Part of the reason for farthermost measures like lockdowns is that it's difficult to determine who has been in contact with infected people to suggest them to quarantine themselves. Vottun's arrangement as well makes contact tracing easier by tracking who has been exposed to COVID-19.

Hall said that the combination of the two offers a way for the government to reopen the economy:

"Until individuals' status tin can exist easily verified it will exist difficult to open up up our economy for business once again. Since we practise non know when there will be a cure we will need practical and trusted solutions like our Immunity Passports to navigate society with some sense of trust and confidence. Vottun's Passports and our contact tracing will open the doors over again to as normal a life as possible in such hard times."