Microsoft is building an artificial intelligence-powered data analytics platform in association with biosecurity risk analytics vendor GOPASS Global to provide intelligence on the risks in international travel to COVID-19 hotspots as Australia and New Zealand release plans on opening borders to international travel.

The GOPASS Global pre-travel risk management platform uses a Microsoft data lake to take in information from 35 different sources, covering 240 countries 3900 airports and more than 700 airlines.