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29/06/22 21:42 PM IST

Many elderly in Andhra Pradesh get COVID precaution dose ‘on paper’

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  • Several senior citizens and adult citizens in Andhra Pradesh who have not visited any vaccine centre after the second dose were taken aback on receipt of messages that they had ‘received’ the dose as per CoWIN.
COWIN 
  • CoWIN app is an extension of the Electronic Vaccine Intelligence Network (eVIN) that provides real-time information on vaccine stocks and storage temperatures across all cold chain points in the country
  • It is a cloud-based IT platform and it handles minute details for India’s Covid-19 immunization programme
  • It includes:
  • registering beneficiaries, allocating vaccination centres
  • sending text messages with the name of their vaccinator to beneficiaries and live monitoring of vials in cold storage.
  • The Co-WIN platform is owned by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and was earlier the platform used for conducting Pulse Polio and other crucial immunization programmes across the country.
  • The Ministry of Electronics and IT along with the National Informatics Centre are handling the backend and the tech infrastructure for it.
Source- PIB 

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