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CoWin App Registration, When & How to Download and Why You ll Have to Wait for Access to it
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The ministry of health and family welfare has warned citizens against downloading fake CoWIN apps that are doing the rounds on app stores. The government’s Co-WIN app is still under development.
With India s COVID-19 vaccination drive beginning today, the Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare has informed citizens about the Co-Win platform that will be used to monitor the vaccination drive in the country.
NEW DELHI - As India moves to roll out one of the world s biggest vaccination drives, an app called CoWIN (Covid Vaccine Intelligence Work) will be the backbone of the exercise to vaccinate its vast population.
The vaccination drive comes with a whole set of challenges, including the seamless movement of the vaccine from the source to the vaccination centres, storing it at the right temperature throughout and identifying beneficiaries in order of priority, all of which can be difficult even in countries with smaller populations.
But India, not lacking in technological prowess, is banking on the app.
In the financial capital of Mumbai, the authorities have registered 225,000 health workers and front-line staff, including police, on the CoWIN App.
Co-WIN App Can be Accessible to General Public Only a Month After the Vaccination Drive Begins
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The Co-WIN platform, the Government of India’s app designed to enable citizens to self-register for the Covid-19 vaccination process, initially will be accessible to healthcare workers alone and will be open to usage for the general public within a month. Besides the COVID warriors, the app will effectively be used by central and state governments to implement the inoculation drive.
The initial accessibility of the Co-WIN app has been limited to the healthcare staff to enable them to provide a database regarding their vaccination and receive information around it,
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The Indian authorities may have given a go-ahead to two COVID-19 vaccines (Covishield by AstraZeneca and Oxford University, and Covaxin by Bharat Biotech), the task of administering a two-dose vaccine to over 1.3 billion people will be nothing short of a logistical nightmare.
With the approval of the two vaccines, the government authorities have also re-launched the Co-WIN (COVID Vaccine Intelligence Network). The indigenously built platform, which will work as an intelligence ecosystem, is an updated version of eVIN (Electronic Vaccine Intelligence Network), and has been developed in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
eVIN & Co-WIN
The eVIN platform was rolled out in 2015 under India’s National Health Mission to vaccinate 27 million women and 29 million children annually. The platform digitized vaccine stocks and monitored the temperature of the cold chain through a smartphone application. Launched across 12 states of India, e-VIN sup