Keep your Coronavirus Test Result in your Phone!

Developed by the Hungarian company ID&Trust, the solution 'GoodID COVID-19 Green', which is being tested for the first time at the Róbert Private Hospital in Budapest, is making its debut these days. Thanks to this, one can get a free digital certificate about the result of the coronavirus test performed by the healthcare institution.

The certificate, issued by Róbert Private Hospital and color-coded to explain the result, can be entered into the GoodID mobile wallet application running on both Android and iOS without loss of time, making it available on contactless, authentic, unstealable and unbreakable form in all life situations.

The reliability of the coronavirus tests on the market and the interpretation of the result by healthcare professionals are refined from time to time. Nonetheless, the certificates issued provide a good starting point for restoring the confidence needed to relaunch everyday life and for the rules governing the movement of citizens to be established.
“While there is a professional debate about whether a recovering patient with a negative coronavirus test can later be re-infected, or whether he or she can become infected later, this does not mean that we should rule out testing and preventative measures tailored to the test results,” Dr. János Schuller, Chief Physician of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases of Róbert Private Hospital explains.

However, for tests to be used effectively in everyday practice, three things are important: a coherent and reasonable set of rules for test holders, an easy-to-understand certificate for both the holder and the inspectors, and last but not least: the certificate itself is not a source of infection and of transmission.
"A certificate that takes a long time to spell out, and it's not clear what it can empower its owner to do, plus it may have been touched by several people and gets crumpled after a week, certainly doesn't serve its purpose," Tamás Szabó, the founding and managing director of ID&Trust Ltd. points out.