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United Airlines to Test Health App Designed to Ease International Travel Restrictions

United Airlines to Test Health App Designed to Ease International Travel Restrictions

United Airlines Holdings (NASDAQ: UAL) on Wednesday will become the first U.S. airline to test a digital health project designed to standardize international COVID-19 screenings and allow for borders to reopen. United and Hong Kong airline Cathay Pacific Airways are both testing a system set up by CommonPass, a nonprofit backed by the World Economic Forum that hopes to create a "COVID passport" of sorts that will ease concerns about the virus spreading via travel. Travelers on a United flight from London to Newark on Wednesday will upload COVID-19 test results into their smartphones and complete all health screening questionnaires required by the country of entry.