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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