The central government has introduced an app named Co-WIN (Covid Vaccine Intelligence Work) which will be used for Covid-19 vaccination process, once Serum Institute of India and Bharat Biotech are ready to supply vaccines for the first phase of the vaccination which will include frontline workers followed by people who are above 50 years old.
Two Covid-19 vaccines- Covishield and Covaxin-have been approved by the Drug Control General of India (DCGI)’s for restricted emergency use.
Launch Date:
The Co-WIN application is yet to be launched for the common man. There is no official word on the exact date of the launch of this app.
However, the application is in the pre-product stage being accessed by health officials who are uploading the data of the health workers who will get vaccines in the first stage. More than 75 lakh beneficiaries have already been registered during the dry run.
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The Union health ministry and the ministry of electronics and information technology had earlier jointly announced a challenge inviting participants to take part where they will have to strengthen the final app.
How to download the app
An individual can download the app through google play store and Apple's App store.
How to register yourself for vaccination?
Once launched, the app will have four modules: User administrator module, beneficiary registration, vaccination and beneficiary acknowledgement and status updation.
The Union health minister has earlier said that people would be able to self-register themselves for vaccine through this app. But that would happen at a later stage after the frontline workers identified by the local authorities are vaccinated.
The module of beneficiary registration will be for people to use in case they want to register themselves. There will be three options under this: self- registration, individual registration and bulk upload.
In self-registration, the beneficiaries can directly register themselves through the web as well as the mobile application. Photo identity will be required for registration. And if an individual registers himself or herself, the data will be verified to check whether he or she is above 50, or below 50 but with co-morbidity issues.
Surveyors and district administrators can also register multiple beneficiaries but there will be no spot registration in any phase of priority group vaccination.
