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Digital Immunity Certificate
Aim: – The final documentation for COVID-19 would be the vaccination record of respective citizens.
Objective: – At final stage, recording and retrieving of such vaccine related data will be vital for any economic activity.
Main Element: – Clinical Labs, and Diagnostic Research Centres.
Market: – The current market value of clinical labs is $176.7 billion with a CAGR at 7.1 percent till 2027 and the vaccine market is valued at $41 billion, which is expected to grow to $58.4 billion by 2024 at a CAGR of 7 percent.
Why Blockchain: – Over 90 per cent of Indians have their related medical records only in the physical form, the covid19 pandemic has shown that it has become imperative for individuals to digitise their medical records for future use. With the advent of the vaccine in the nearby future, the Blockchain’s Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) and Verifiable Credentials characteristics get to instil a higher level of trust between the credential’s issuer, the credential’s holder and the verifier.
Countries: Chile, Germany, Italy, Britain, US and even India are looking at providing immunity passports to people who have recovered from the coronavirus, so that they feel encouraged to travel.
Positive Outlook: The Preferred Hotels & Resorts global future travel survey earlier in the month of May revealed positive attitude towards travel for the ongoing second half of 2020.
According to the World Travel and Tourism Council, in 2019 tourism contributed nearly US$9 trillion to the world’s GDP and accounted for 330 million jobs (roughly one in 10 jobs around the world). India in 2019 itself contributed 194$Bn to the country GDP ranking 10th out of the 185 economies in the world. But due to the pandemic, the CII estimation suggests that the loss of revenue in the tourism sector can range between Rs 72,000 crore ($10 billion and Rs 1,58,000 crores ($ 22 billion) in 2020-21. And at the global level, the United Nations World Tourism Organization is predicting a fall within the range of $910 billion to $1 trillion in international tourism spending.
The first Coronavirus Vaccine will likely get authorised within months, but that will only be the beginning of what’s likely to be a long, chaotic vaccination process, the New York Times reports. Vaccines expected during the last quarter of 2020(with Pfizer leading the race at 90% trials efficiency). This is another impressive number as researchers were expecting efficacy rates of around 60%–70%, considering these were first-generation vaccines. But 90% is a remarkable number according to most research experts. Governments are already in the unenviable position of balancing public health with the need to revive the economy. Therefore, the idea behind “Digital Passports” is that they would allow people who have recovered from the coronavirus to signal their immunity and thus move around freely, enabling economies to open up. These passports, therefore, are published to blockchains where the data is kept secure, permanent, and immutable.
Caveat: – According to experts, reinfection is rare but possible because immunity is never 100%. Few cases of COVID-19 reinfection have been reported across the world and have raised the concern about people’s immunity to the coronavirus
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