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Sunday, 18 October 2020

The Guardian

• Digital 'health passport' trials under way to aid reopening of bordersCommonPass aims to create common standard proving a traveller is Covid-free or vaccinated. A new digital health passport is to be piloted by a small number of passengers flying from the UK to the US for the first time next week under plans for a global framework for Covid-safe air travel.The CommonPass system, backed by the World Economic Forum (WEF), is designed to create a common international standard for passengers to demonstrate they do not have coronavirus

Times Online

• Are jetpacks and air taxis the future of personal transport? [subscription]need a jetpack. Actually, make it a flying car. No, wait — what I desperately need is one of those levitating motorcycles that they race around on in the Star Wars films. You know the ones, where the driver is bent over like a jockey? Yeah, gimme one of those. My Toyota Prius does stupendous mileage to the gallon but it is just too pedestrian. I need to fly to work, hover down the street for a loaf of bread, glide over the gridlock just so I can look down — figuratively and literally — on all those “groundies”. Suckers.

Belfast Telegraph

• Lockdown drinking at Belfast airports could take off as exemption means pubs at terminals can serve boozeWHILE bars across the country were forced to close at 6pm on Friday evening, there are still pubs here where punters can legally get a freshly pulled pint.