With India rolling out vaccination efforts against Covid-19, Nandan Nilekani, founding architect of Aadhaar and co-founder of Infosys on Friday said that the country will be a role model on how to vaccinate a billion people at scale, speed and in a trusted manner. “I actually believe that if we do all the right things, India will also be a role model on how to vaccinate a billion people at scale speed, and in a trusted manner,” said Nilekani at ‘Ground Zero 4.0 | Scaling Up’ event organised by research firm RedSeer Consulting. “A lot of the work happening in the government is actually to create a highly scalable vaccination infrastructure.”
Glitches in CoWIN app slow down COVID-19 vaccination drive, fixed for now
Firstpost 21-01-2021
India began its COVID-19 vaccination drive on 16 January and so far, over
631,000 vaccine doses have been administered according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW). The doses delivered per day have seen a daily rise, with 165,714 people vaccinated on 16 Jan and around 177,368 people vaccinated on 19 Jan. It is being touted as the world’s largest COVID-19 vaccination drive. But this drive could have been even faster, had it not been for the glitches that have been observed in the
CoWIN app (COVID Vaccine Intelligence Network), which is one of the critical links in the COVID-19 vaccination drive. The government attributes these glitches to teething troubles.
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A woman walks past a painting of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi a day before the inauguration of the COVID-19 vaccination drive on a street in Mumbai, India, January 15, 2021. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas
On Saturday - the first day of the drive - over 3 lakh healthcare workers will be administered the vaccine against Covid-19, the deadly respiratory disease which has now killed and infected millions across the world, upended economies and lives.
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The ministry of health and family welfare has warned citizens against downloading fake CoWIN apps that are doing the rounds on app stores. The government’s Co-WIN app is still under development.
With India s COVID-19 vaccination drive beginning today, the Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare has informed citizens about the Co-Win platform that will be used to monitor the vaccination drive in the country.
Co-WIN App Can be Accessible to General Public Only a Month After the Vaccination Drive Begins
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The Co-WIN platform, the Government of India’s app designed to enable citizens to self-register for the Covid-19 vaccination process, initially will be accessible to healthcare workers alone and will be open to usage for the general public within a month. Besides the COVID warriors, the app will effectively be used by central and state governments to implement the inoculation drive.
The initial accessibility of the Co-WIN app has been limited to the healthcare staff to enable them to provide a database regarding their vaccination and receive information around it,