New Delhi [India], June 11 (ANI): The Union Health Ministry on Friday informed that India is using a digital platform Electronic Vaccine Intelligence Network (eVIN) system, which tracks the vaccines and facilitates real-time, including monitoring of storage temperatures across 29,000 cold chain points at the national, state, and district level.
India News: NEW DELHI: The Union Health Ministry on Friday informed that India is using a digital platform Electronic Vaccine Intelligence Network (eVIN) system, .
Centre bars states from sharing Covid-19 vaccine information
The eVIN system is used to track the vaccine stock status and temperature at all levels of vaccine storage from the national to sub-district levels after being launched in 2012-13.
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A woman reacts as she receives a dose of Covishield, the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine for COVID-19, in Ahmedabad. (Photo | AP) By Express News Service
NEW DELHI: The Union Health Ministry has prohibited states from sharing Covid-19 vaccine stock-related information to any other agency or organisation, calling it “sensitive”, it has emerged. States are supposed to update the Centre on stock and transactions of all vaccines, those included in its Universal Immunisation Programme as well as using the Electronic Vaccine Intelligence Network (EVIN), a management system implemented in India with the help of the United Nations Development Programme.
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09:37 AM IST: India on Thursday morning logged 94,052 new Covid infections in 24 hours, the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry said. The death toll, however, saw a spike after Bohar health department revised its toll figures on Wednesday.
India reports 94,052 #COVID19 cases, 1,51,367 discharges & 6148 deaths (highest in one day) in last 24 hrs, as per Health Ministry
Total cases: 2,91,83,121
Total discharges: 2,76,55,493
Death toll: 3,59,676
Active cases: 11,67,952
Total vaccination: 23,90,58,360 pic.twitter.com/hS9rDOCDuq
The Health Ministry clarification comes in the wake of media reports about the Centre writing to the states and UTs, advising them not to share the data of the Electronic Vaccine Intelligence Network (eVIN) system on vaccine stocks and the temperature of vaccine storage at public forums without prior consent.