A security audit of the U-WIN portal has been completed by the CERT-In empanelled agency as per the mandate of the government of India to ensure data protection, Minister of State for Health S P Singh Baghel said.
The platform will be used to register and vaccinate every pregnant woman, record her delivery outcome, register every newborn delivery, administer birth doses and all vaccination events thereafter, official sources told PTI. U-WIN, which will replicate Co-WIN, was launched on January 11 in 65 districts across the country.
Named U-WIN, the programme to digitise India’s Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP) has been launched in a pilot mode in two districts of each state and Union Territory.
The nasal vaccine -- BBV154 -- received approval of the Drugs Controller General of India in November for restricted use in an emergency situation for those above 18 as a heterologous booster dose.
Recalling an incident in the US, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said, "There, they wanted to see our Covid vaccination certificate. So, I showed them my phone while my son...
A top government official said on Friday that India's Covid vaccination platform Co-WIN will be re-purposed as an organ donation platform to make the current system more transparent and to link patients with suitable donors in their area.
Vikas Sheel, Additional Secretary & Mission Director, National Health Mission, clarified that as per the records on Co-WIN, there is no record of the Bihar man receiving 12 COVID-19 vaccine shots.
COVID-19 vaccination: The vaccine option for those age group of children would only be Covaxin as it is the only vaccine with Emergency Use Listing (EUL) for the 15-18 age group.
To use this API, an individual needs to enter his/her mobile number and name. Thereafter, they will get an OTP which they have to enter. In return, Co-WIN will send a response to the verifying entity on the individual's status of vaccination, which will be as follows: — Person is not vaccinated — Person is partially vaccinated — Person is fully vaccinated.
The Centre has issued a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) to facilitate vaccination of eligible beneficiaries who do not possess the prescribed photo ID documents.
We continue to take appropriate steps as are necessary, from time to time, to ensure that the data of the people are safe with Co-WIN, RS Sharma has said on data breach incident.
RS Sharma, who heads the committee for India's COVID-19 vaccine delivery tech platform Co-WIN, weighs in on the app’s initial tech glitches, lessons in scale from Aadhaar, and how India can expand vaccinations to cover 1 crore people a day.