India News: NEW DELHI: The glitches in the Co-WIN app reported from Covid vaccination session sites are minor software issues mainly related to the initial rollou.
Exclusive: Besides Co-Win, Aarogya Setu to be used to self-register for India s vaccine drive
Exclusive: Besides Co-Win, Aarogya Setu to be used to self-register for India s vaccine drive
After priority groups are inoculated, the Aarogya Setu app will allow the public to access limited features for enrolment to get vaccinated through the Co-WIN platform.
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UPDATED: January 20, 2021 10:27 IST
Aarogya Setu app is the single window interface in India for health updates related to Covid-19. (Image: Reuters)
India s contact tracing app Aarogya Setu would now be used in the
world s largest vaccination programme. The app will allow self-registration for the priority groups of the 27 crore elderly population to be vaccinated in India.
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.
Updated Jan 13, 2021 | 19:06 IST
CoWin is a digitised platform and one-of-its-kind end-to-end citizen-centric tool which will be the backbone of the tech behind India s historic and mammoth vaccination drive. Documents valid for registration
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Trucks, aircraft, refrigerated vans are all crisscrossing the country to supply vaccines to various parts of India as we begin our vaccination drive on 16th Jan. Two Covid-19 vaccines have been given a go-ahead by the drug regulator for emergency use. Serum Institute s Covishield and Bharat Biotech s Covaxin - both are being supplied for the first phase of inoculation which will cover 30 crore Indians. Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that the government will bear the costs of vaccination for 3 crore health and frontline workers.
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, January 10
Preparations are in full swing for the January 16 rollout of the Covid vaccination drive with the Centre fine-tuning jab delivery platform Co-WIN with the