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A lawmaker part of the committee said government officials denied a data leak from the CoWIN portal, and that the leaked data in public domain was a collation of data bought from several sources.
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The TMC MP's letter to the police came after reports said that a bot linked to social media app Telegram breached the CoWIN portal and gained access to the data of scores of Indians who had booked slots for vaccination against coronavirus.
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In all cases of data breaches, it is the citizen who suffers because of the lack of a proper data security and privacy law
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The cyber firm’s report rules out weakness in CoWin's infrastructure. With cyber infrastructure of the health sector witnessing repeated attacks in the past few months, experts have urged the government to mandate healthcare as a critical infrastructure.
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The government has termed such reports as "mischievous" and "without any basis", while asserting that the CoWIN portal is completely safe with adequate safeguards for data privacy.
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The Minister of State for IT further said the National Data Governance policy has been finalised that will create a common framework of data storage, access and security standards in the country.
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A government source said all application programming interfaces (API) associated with CoWIN are being looked over, and the Health Ministry is expected to post a clarification in this regard.
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"It was a huge challenge to provide a large country with a large population with vaccine from necessary time to time," said PM Narendra Modi in the History TV18's brand new documentary, 'The Vial-India’s Vaccine Story’
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Currently, Bharat Biotech's Covaxin, Serum Institute's Covishield and Covovax, Russian Sputink V and Biological E Ltd's Corbevax are listed in the CoWin portal.
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In an exclusive interview with News18.com, Dr RS Sharma, chief executive officer of the National Health Authority, said that the work to repurpose CoWIN has already begun and it’s “a matter of just a few months" when the tech platform will finally be rolled out for booking slots of routine vaccines.
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The vaccination record under the Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP) is now maintained manually.
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The National Health Authority (NHA) under its flagship Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission scheme has launched a revamped Ayushman Bharat Health Account mobile application.
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The concept behind NHPO will be to analyse ongoing programmes and draw up strategies to tackle public policy related implications. The observatory will help in core policy planning and serve as a data control centre during health emergencies, an official said.
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All those above the age of 18, who have completed nine months after the administration of the second dose, will be eligible for the precaution dose
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"In 10-14 days, Covovax can be available on CoWin at about Rs 900 plus tax," the SII chief executive said.
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Under the ABDM, citizens will be able to create their Ayushman Bharat Health Account numbers, to which their digital health records can be linked
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A bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud and Surya Kant was informed by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare that one of the nine identity documents including passport, Driving Licence, PAN card, Voter’s Card, Ration card can be produced for vaccination.
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From time to time, there have been reports from states that there may be more COVID vaccinations happening on paper than on ground, but every time these claims have been rejected by the Centre outrightly.
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The Union Health Ministry will apply necessary filters on the Co-WIN platform to exclude Modi’s photo from the vaccine certificate
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As per the details shared by the government last month, all frontline and healthcare workers, along with the 60-plus population with comorbidities will be eligible for the additional jab.
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"This was long-awaited. The third wave is already here and considering how aggressive the second wave was, we were all afraid," said Ritesh Ghosh, a 17-year-old student.
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According to the guidelines, which will come into effect from January 3, those aged 15 and above will be able to register on CoWIN. In other words, "all those whose birth year is 2007" or before, shall be eligible.
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RS Sharma is the CEO of the National Authority and chairperson of the empowered committee for CoWin.
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The service is being built to help citizens who may not have the vaccine certificate available in digital or paper form for availing a requested service and can support the service provider to verify the vaccination status/vaccination digital record of the citizen as per the authorised permission of the requesting entity.
