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Explained: Is CoWIN, India's digital vaccine management solution, ready for a massive rollout? CoWIN (COVID-19 Vaccine Intelligence Network) is a repurposed version of eVIN (Electronic Vaccine Intelligence Network), an indigenously developed platform in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme and the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Its success will be crucial to the implementation of the country's vaccination drive. December 30, 2020 / 05:06 PM IST India is preparing for a massive COVID-19 vaccine rollout in the coming months, as early as January in fact, going ...

Dry run of COVID-19 vaccination concludes in four states Dry run of COVID-19 vaccination concludes in four states 29 December 2020 | News Source credit: Shutterstock Union Ministry of Health & Family Welfare conducted a two-day dry run for activities entailed in COVID-19 vaccination in four states Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Punjab and Gujarat on December 28-29 2020. Backed with the experience of rolling out Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP) and conducting nationwide multiple wide-range injectable vaccination campaigns such as measles-rubella (MR) and adult Japanese Encephalitis (JE) campai...

2020: How years of trials, research were compressed into months in developing a Covid-19 vaccine Covid-19 Vaccine: Efforts by the scientific community across the world over the past few months have yielded at least two promising Covid-19 vaccines -- by Pfizer and Moderna Updated: December 23, 2020 7:59:00 pm Prime Minister Scott Morrison, pfizer Australia, BioNTech Australia, COVID-19 cases in Australia, Australia coronavirus cases, Australia latest news, Australia vaccination updates, world news, indian express world news.(Express File) Unprecedented and ...

BENGALURU: With nearly 10% of the country’s 28,932 cold chain points concentrated in the state, the Karnataka government is confident of further ramping up infrastructure and delivering Covid-19 vaccines to people without a hitch. Karnataka has already launched reorientation training for pharmacy officers — who will manage the cold chain — at all levels, besides coaching sessions for medical officers, ANMs, staff nurses and all cadres within the health department. Arundathi Chandrashekar, director, National Health Mission, which will spearhead the inoculation drive in the state, said:...

BENGALURU: India, which will be leveraging infrastructure and manpower created under the country’s Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP) for Covid vaccination, has a network of nearly 82 lakh vaccination session sites routinely used by UIP, one of the largest such programmes in the world. According to a UIP review and multi-year plan document, there are more than 81.87 lakh sites where different vaccines are administered. However, most of these sites will come into play when inoculation of people other than healthcare and frontline workers starts. In the first phase of Covid vaccination,...