States prepare to vaccinate teenagers in age group of 15-18 years from January 3 - Registration on CoWIN portal will begin from January 1 and on-site registrations will start from January 3. Only Covaxin will be used for vaccination.
COVID-19 RT-PCR test reports soon to be linked to CoWIN to help ease travel: Report - The RT-PCR tests for COVID-19 will soon be linked with the CoWIN application, National Health Authority chief RS Sharma said
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CoWin platform will open for registrations for all 18+ citizens from April 24. The news comes after India allowed further relaxations for getting the jab amidst a rising tsunami of cases.
All adults will be vaccinated in a liberalised and accelerated Phase 3 strategy of COVID-19 vaccination , the government had earlier said in a statement . Government has been working hard from over a year to ensure that maximum numbers of Indians are able to get the vaccine in the shortest possible of time, PM Modi had said.
Role of states
NEW DELHI: The second phase of the Covid-19 vaccination drive in India has begun. It aims to cover 10 crore people across the country. So far, more than 1.5 core people have received Covid-19 shots.
States and UTs have been asked to keep a vaccination scale-up plan ready which includes the granular weekly and fortnightly plans for scaling up the vaccination sites both within the government and private facilities and also the number of vaccine doses administered.
Training will be provided to the health workers and other staff who will administer the vaccination and other standard procedures in the centres for the next two days, the health ministry has said.