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Registration for Phase-3 vaccine drive begins at 4PM today April 28, 2021 × Meanwhile, India records over 3.60 lakh fresh Covid-19 cases in a day, the highest single day rise, according government data updated on Wednesday The government will this evening begin registration for Covid-19 vaccination for those above 18 years of age from May 1 as part of the more liberalised phase-3 vaccination programme. The registration will commence at 4:00 PM on Wednesday on CoWIN (www.cowin.gov.in), the digital platform that is tracking each and every vaccination carried out in the country. This regist...

Government selectively opens up Co-WIN APIs to third parties without data policy 5 hours ago On April 17, the Government denied permission for software access to the Co-WIN dashboard to Step One, a non-profit organisation (NPO) working on enabling vaccination registration and appointment through WhatsApp. However, on Wednesday it reversed its position and opened selective parts of the Application Programme Interfaces (APIs) for Co-WIN to third parties for appointment vacancies search and vaccination certificate downloads. In a letter to Step One, dated April 17, the Empowered Group of Vaccine...

The Seventh Schedule defines the mandate under public health to cover sanitation, hospitals and dispensaries, while the prevention of the spread of contagious diseases — relevant in the present context — from one state to another comes under the concurrent list. Bolstered by the archaic Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897, and the National Disaster Management Act (NDMA), 2005, the Centre had the constitutional and political carte blanche to give directions to the states during the pandemic. The top-down approach resulted in tensions as some Opposition-governed states acted contrary to the Centre�...

Highlights 500 PSA plants have also been sanctioned, said PMO The PM said that states with high case burden should be given aid New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has sanctioned procurement of one lakh portable oxygen concentrators and 500 new Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) oxygen plants from the PM Cares Fund. The decision was taken at a high-level meeting chaired by Modi to discuss the measures needed to improve Liquid Medical Oxygen (LMO) supply for COVID-19 management, a statement from the Prime Minister’s Office said on Wednesday (April 28). The PM instructed that these oxygen co...

URL copied PM Modi held a high-level meeting to monitor the Covid situation in the country. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday chaired a meeting with top officials to review the Covid-19 relation situation in the country. He got an overview on the situation in the country relating to oxygen availability, medicines, health infrastructure, etc. The Empowered Group working on boosting oxygen supply briefed the PM on efforts being made to ramp up availability and supply of oxygen in the country. They informed the PM about increasing allocation of oxygen to states. It was discussed ...