Just One Step Away From Covid Vaccine, Health Minister Informs How Co-Win Will Facilitate Inoculation

The inoculation drive will start once DCGI gives final approval to either Bharat Biotech or Oxford vaccine or both as the government is planning to vaccinate 30 crore people in India against Coronavirus in the next six to eight months.

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New Delhi: After conducting a massive dry run for vaccination in 14 states and UTs successfully India is just days ahead of getting its first Coronavirus vaccine. Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan inspected the vaccination centres conducting dry run and announced "In the 1st phase of Covid-19 Vaccination, free vaccine shall be provided across the nation to most prioritised beneficiaries that include 1 crore healthcare and 2 crore frontline workers. Details of how further 27 crore priority beneficiaries are to be vaccinated until July are being finalised". Now, the Health Minister took to Twitter and shared the process of how Co-Win will facilitate the distribution of the vaccine.

• Registration & verification of beneficiaries
• Scheduling inoculation
• SMS reminders for schedule & follow on dosage
• Reporting Adverse Event Following Immunisation
• e-Certificate post-vaccination

Co-WIN is the app that will be a one-stop platform for covid vaccination and will make the process easier for people to understand when and where they will be vaccinated.

Co-WIN platform to facilitate:

????Registration & verification of beneficiaries ????Scheduling inoculation ????SMS reminders for schedule & follow on dosage ????Reporting Adverse Event Following Immunisation ????e-Certificate post-vaccination pic.twitter.com/TP4ZHi8KPD — Dr Harsh Vardhan (@drharshvardhan) January 3, 2021

The inoculation drive will start anytime soon after the regulator Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) approves a vaccine. The DCGI head, V G Somani, recently hinted that India is likely to have a COVID-19 vaccine "in the New Year". He talked about the efforts made by the Department of Biotechnology and said, "...probably we will have a very happy New Year with something in hand. That's what I can hint at." The DCGI has to give final approval to Bharat Biotech’s vaccine candidate 'Covaxin' and Oxford-Astrazeneca vaccine candidate for the process to start which will be the largest inoculation drive in the world.