New Delhi: The Centre is planning to repurpose two main pillars of nation’s digital health systems that were used to track Covid-19 – CoWIN and Aarogya Setu – as India‘s health application. National Health Authority (NHA) CEO R.S. Sharma said that Aarogya Setu is being repurposed as India’s health application while CoWIN being repurposed for … Read more
Government’s platforms for vaccination of children, organ and blood donation are expected to be ready in six months but data required to be seeded on these platforms may take some more time, a top official of National Health Authority said here. Speaking on the sidelines of Vivatech 2022, Co-WIN chief and National Health Authority CEO … Read more
Zoho Corporation‘s low-code application development platform, Creator, has been leveraged by two Chennai techies to help the Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) to seamlessly take on the task of providing citizens with access to the Covid-19 vaccines. Shyam Sundar, CEO and Founder, GoFloaters and Vikram Ravi, founding team, Unmetrics, got together in June 2021 and used … Read more
The CoWIN portal, mandatory for Indians to register for vaccines, faced a plethora of problems after it was launched earlier this year. (Reuters) The CoWIN portal has started displaying a ‘Partially Vaccinated’ or ‘Fully Vaccinated’ badge next to an individual’s name when they log in. The badge will appear on the CoWIN profile after logging … Read more
The system now allowed for correction in name of the vaccinated in the vaccine certificate and two lakh mistakes had been corrected so far. As the economy opens up in view of declining Covid-19 cases in the country, the government has made a crucial update to the Coronavirus vaccination application CoWIN. As per the new … Read more
New Delhi: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Deloitte, KPMG, PwC, NSDL e-Governance Infrastructure and Trigyn Technologies have expressed interest in rolling out India’s vaccination platform Co-Win in other countries, a top government official said. Last month, the government organized a global conclave where foreign countries had expressed interest in adapting Co-Win to vaccinate their citizens. About … Read more
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has asked the principal investigators of clinical trials to compile a list of volunteers who received an actual vaccine shot, and not a placebo, so that they can be issued certificates from the vaccine registration platform CoWIN. “ICMR is facilitating the process. We do feel that participants have … Read more
According to a Fortis Healthcare official, the hospital chain started providing Sputnik V jabs last week at Fortis Memorial Research Institute, Gurugram and Fortis Hospital, Mohali. (Representational image: IE) Private hospital chains Fortis Healthcare and Apollo Hospitals have started administering Russian COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik V at two of their hospitals in Delhi-NCR, officials said on … Read more
The system now allowed for correction in name of the vaccinated in the vaccine certificate and two lakh mistakes had been corrected so far. The Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) of Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has investigated the matter of the alleged hacking of the Co-WIN system and it has found this to … Read more
A bot developed by two students of the Indian Institute of Information Technology in Delhi, sends alerts to users about open slots on the CoWin app, thus improving the chances of successfully booking a slot. Launched on May 4, the bot has garnered 60,000 users since. Developed by Rohan Rajpal and Paras Mehan, ‘CoWin Alerts’ … Read more