On Saturday, Congress leader Rashid Alvi cast aspersions on the efficacy of COVAXIN amid the commencement of the pan-India COVID-19 vaccination drive in India.
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Co-WIN Features Explained Ahead of COVID-19 Vaccination Drive; PM to Launch Platform Shortly
Co-WIN platform will also inform users, which includes healthcare workers as well, about the users, inventory, and other important information.
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India s COVID-19 vaccination drive starts today. The world s largest vaccination drive is set to begin at 10:15AM today, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi commencing the vaccination drive along with doctors and potential beneficiaries at AIIMS. As the country prepares for the largest vaccination drive in the world, let us take a look at what we know about the Co-WIN digital platform that the government has created in order to streamline the vaccination drive. Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan had yesterday laid out all the features of the Co-WIN platform a day ahead of the beginning of the vaccination drive, saying that the digital platform will help the government in enabling the world s largest vaccination drive.
Twitter user @ThePushpendra pushed out a tweet which received more than 1,800 retweets at the time of writing. (Archive link) Several people have shared this claim on Facebook and Twitter.
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On January 2, Union Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan revealed that in the first phase, 1 crore health workers and 2 crore frontline workers would receive the vaccine free of cost. He stated that the government was still finalising the details of how to administer the vaccine to the remaining 27 crore people on the priority list by July.
Lawyer and RTI activist Saket Gokhale has filed a writ petition in Bombay High Court against the Drugs Controller General of India (DGCI) requesting for