{"id":40524,"date":"2020-12-08T09:40:44","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T13:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=40524"},"modified":"2020-12-08T09:41:16","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T13:41:16","slug":"yet-another-airline-announces-an-essential-covid-passport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=40524","title":{"rendered":"Yet Another Airline Announces the Fake Need for an &#8216;ESSENTIAL&#8217; Covid Passport"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>ANOTHER Airline Announces \u2018COVID Passports\u2019 Will Be \u201cEssential\u201d For Travel<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>\u201cThat has to be the number one priority: to get vaccines in the hands in as much of the global population as possible, and then connecting this to a COVID passport\u201d<\/h3>\n<p>Steve Watson<br \/>\nSUMMIT NEWS<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40525\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/GettyImages-1282459400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/GettyImages-1282459400.jpg 800w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/GettyImages-1282459400-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/GettyImages-1282459400-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yet another airline has announced that it sees so called \u2018COVID passports\u2019, proof that travellers have been vaccinated and\/or tested negative for coronavirus, as \u201cessential\u201d for them to be able to travel.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lance Gokongwei, President and CEO of Cebu Pacific, the largest budget airline in the Philippines,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.abs-cbn.com\/business\/12\/07\/20\/covid-passport-will-be-essential-when-international-travel-reopens-cebu-pacific-boss\">made the comments<\/a>\u00a0to reporters Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do think that\u2019s essential, especially as we open up international travel,\u201d Gokongwei said, adding that there are \u201cdifferent vaccines and I think we have to work on a single, global COVID passport so that each country respects the passport.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gokongwei also stated that without fears of the virus spreading being allayed by vaccination and herd immunity, \u201cthere\u2019s nothing to be spoken about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat has to be the number one priority: to get vaccines in the hands in as much of the global population as possible, and then connecting this to a COVID passport,\u201d he urged.<\/p>\n<p>Watch:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vviDBfdIUxE?enablejsapi=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"ifw-player expanded\" data-video-id=\"5fcd6d682a277a671fb3095b\">\n<div><iframe src=\"https:\/\/api.banned.video\/embed\/5fcd6d682a277a671fb3095b\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Alex Jones: \u201cThe globalists are getting a bioweapon ready to lockdown the internet, and bring in world government \u2013 not now but very soon\u2026\u201d \u2013 June 2018<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"in-article\">\n<div class=\"ad\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2020\/11\/25\/korean-air-real-possibility-that-airlines-will-mandate-passengers-be-vaccinated-before-travel\/\">Several<\/a>\u00a0other\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2020\/11\/23\/qantas-airways-ceo-says-covid-vaccination-will-be-mandatory-for-travel\/\">airlines<\/a>\u00a0have\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2020\/11\/13\/report-airlines-to-require-health-pass-vaccine-certificate-before-allowing-passengers-to-fly\/\">indicated<\/a>\u00a0that proof of vaccination, through \u2018COVID passports\u2019, will become mandatory in order to fly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2020\/10\/07\/airports-begin-testing-covid-passport-that-will-record-whether-someone-has-been-vaccinated-before-travel\/\">Testing of the passports has already begun<\/a>\u00a0in some airports with specific airlines.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the world\u2019s largest air transport lobby group is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2020\/11\/24\/global-transport-body-developing-travel-pass-app-to-link-proof-of-vaccination-to-passports\/\">developing a global \u2018COVID travel pass\u2019 app<\/a>\u00a0designed to link vaccination status and coronavirus test results to a person\u2019s travel documents.<\/p>\n<p>Another \u2018COVID passport\u2019 type system known as the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2020\/11\/13\/report-airlines-to-require-health-pass-vaccine-certificate-before-allowing-passengers-to-fly\/\">CommonPass<\/a>, sponsored by the World Economic Forum, is under development.<\/p>\n<p>A further \u2018COVID passport\u2019 app\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aokpass.com\/\">called the\u00a0AOKpass<\/a>\u00a0from travel security firm International SOS is currently\u00a0undergoing trials \u00a0between Abu Dhabi and Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d-FTnutOBwI\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uktech.news\/news\/covid-19-verified-passport-worlds-first-by-a-british-tech-firm-20201207\">Tech companies<\/a>\u00a0are scrambling over themselves to develop\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.travelweekly.com.au\/article\/locally-developed-digital-health-passport-could-unlock-australias-international-border-gates\/\">these COVID passport systems<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone still labelling this a \u2018conspiracy theory\u2019 is either willfully ignorant or just plain uninformed.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2020\/12\/07\/another-airline-announces-that-covid-passports-will-be-essential-for-travel\/\">https:\/\/summit.news\/2020\/12\/07\/another-airline-announces-that-covid-passports-will-be-essential-for-travel\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANOTHER Airline Announces \u2018COVID Passports\u2019 Will Be \u201cEssential\u201d For 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