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Centre bars states from sharing Covid-19 vaccine information The eVIN system is used to track the vaccine stock status and temperature at all levels of vaccine storage from the national to sub-district levels after being launched in 2012-13.  Share Via Email   |  A+A A- A woman reacts as she receives a dose of Covishield, the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine for COVID-19, in Ahmedabad. (Photo | AP) By Express News Service NEW DELHI: The Union Health Ministry has prohibited states from sharing Covid-19 vaccine stock-related information to any other agency or organisation, calling it “sens...

After reports in a section of the media highlighting the letter of the Union Health Ministry to States and Union Territories regarding the eVIN inventory and te

The move comes at a time when questions are being raised on the lack of centralised vaccine availability data in public domain and opacity in the vaccine distribution plan to states.

For the first time in state, PCV to be administered as a part pf universal immunisation programme

Centre Should Procure Vaccines For All. Anything Else is Contrary to Efficiency and Equity Whose needs are greater: that of the Centre or the private buyer? How did the Centre arrive at such an arrangement? Beneficiaries wait to receive a dose of COVID-19 vaccine, at a district government hospital, Balurghat in South Dinajpur, Monday, May 31, 2021. Photo: PTI Health5 hours ago The Centre must immediately adopt a policy of national uniform pricing of COVID-19 vaccines for procurement by the Government of India. They must accept the primary responsibility of purchasing and making available vacc...