Economic Survey 2023: COVID-19 Vaccination programme a success despite several challenges; Co-Win enabled the vaccine delivery possible, Health News, ET HealthWorld

Economic Survey 2023: COVID-19 Vaccination programme a success despite several challenges; Co-Win enabled the vaccine delivery possible, Health News, ET HealthWorld

New Delhi: Despite several roadblocks in the way, India rigorously scaled up the COVID-19 vaccination program. This was elaborated further in the latest Economic Survey 2023, which was tabled in the Rajya Sabha on January 31 by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitaraman. According to the survey, India has been able to administer more than 220 crore … Read more

Idea Exchange: Co-Win an extremely scalable platform, tech backbone is in place, we can handle (vaccine) load that comes, says RS Sharma

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RS Sharma, Chairman of Empowered Group on Vaccine Administration; CEO, National Health Authority R S Sharma, Chairman of Empowered Group on Vaccine Administration and CEO of National Health Authority talks about using learnings from Aadhaar to ensure speed, inclusivity in vaccination, says vaccine wastage is a management issue, notes that supply, capacity, demand will determine … Read more

Co-Win portal can handle vaccination for all, says RS Sharma

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The peak vaccination rate was one million per hour and that translated to a few hundred per second. The Co-Win vaccine registration portal can handle more users when the vaccination drive is opened to citizens under 45 years, RS Sharma, chairperson of the empowered group on Covid-19 vaccination and head of the Co-Win digital platform, … Read more

Lucknow: Error in Co-WIN paves way for vax drive at RMLIMS on off day – ET HealthWorld

lucknow error in co win paves way for vax drive at rmlims on off day

Lucknow: An error in Co-WIN portal paved way for the vaccination of several senior citizens and people with comorbidities (in the age group of 45-59 years) on a weekly off day on Sunday at Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences (RMLIMS). The vaccination drive is not being held on Sundays, but due to an … Read more

Poll panel seeks report on TMC’s complaint about PM’s pic on COVID-19 vaccination certificate

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The Election Commission has sought a report from the West Bengal chief electoral officer on the Trinamool Congress‘ complaint that the picture of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the COVID-19 vaccination certificate violates the model code. A functionary said on Thursday that the state CEO has been directed to file a report to verify the … Read more

Delhi: Progress lags as technical glitches continue to hurt – ET HealthWorld

delhi progress lags as technical glitches continue to hurt

New Delhi: Technical glitches and non-responsive Co-Win servers affected the Covid-19 vaccination drive in many of the 136 private and 56 government hospitals on Tuesday. At many locations, the inoculation had to continue with manual verification of proof of appointment on the Co-Win portal. Server problems also marred the walk-in registration in many hospitals. At … Read more

25 lakh register on Co-Win on first day of Phase 2 – ET HealthWorld

25 lakh register on co win on first day of phase 2

NEW DELHI: Teething troubles mainly related to delay in receiving OTPs, selection of hospitals or vaccination sites not being “live” and server issues on Co-Win marked the first day of the second phase of vaccination, reports Sushmi Dey. The delays, which officials said are being set right, happened even as 25 lakh potential recipients were … Read more

Vaccine registration to open for public @ Co-Win 2.0 – ET HealthWorld

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NEW DELHI: Registration for the new category of 60 plus people and those between 45-60 with comorbidities will open at 9am on Monday using the Co-Win 2.0 portal (www.cowin.gov.in) or through other IT applications. So far, around 1.42 crore doses of the vaccines have been administered among health and frontline workers since the launch of … Read more

Govt: Co-Win software robust, can handle 50 lakh vaccinations a day – ET HealthWorld

govt co win software robust can handle 50 lakh vaccinations a day

New Delhi: Amid concerns about software glitches in Co-Win, the government said the software is robust and the issues are related to data in specific states like Maharashtra. “There are no software-related glitches. The platform is robust to handle much more traffic than it is getting right now,” R S Sharma, Chief Executive of National … Read more