We think that the the industry uh will be able to restart following the whole out of the vaccination policy everywhere and the interesting point is that we are asking states you know to put together you know open reopening plans that are consistent with the vaccination strategy the uk has paved the way and done a very good job in that respect so germany is following so we are hoping that many countries will be able to put together these plans of reopening consistent with the vaccination strategy so we will be able to restart safely the industry and the trouble there's been a lot of talk about some kind of vaccine passport how do we get an international system in place that everybody will abide with and that will also protect the privacy of the users what we are developing in ayata we are not the only one but we are developing a tool that could be downloaded on your on your smartphone and that will certify that you have been either vaccinated or tested or that you have had the covid so you have been tested with the antigen system and so it will give confidence to states that things have been done properly and um and are compliant with the requirement to enter into their territory because it's a key tool then these two can be used or not by states because it's a sovereign decision as a as a health passport and our app you know uh maintain the control of all this medical personal data by the passenger it is not stored in any database that we could uh control or that any government could control is under the control of the passenger that decides to transfer this data to the state or to the airline that request it so that's an important point Alexandra i want to jump in and ask you about hotel quarantines as we discuss more tours around testing and vaccines a lot of countries are still requiring mandatory hotel quarantine to know ireland is even looking at that process soon too it's a mental and cost hurdle for some travelers how do you view the situation we have always said that our quarantine was the main blocking point for uh for travel first of all secondly if you charge the passenger with the two weeks you know stay in a hotel it becomes almost outrageous financially speaking and what we said is that quarantine should be avoided provided you have a testing system systematic testing system plus a vaccination then you know quarantine becomes we think uh not necessary to reduce the risk of reinfection of reimporting the virus in the in the country so we of course we are not in favor of quarantine provided there are alternative testing or vaccination system that may demonstrate that you are safe
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