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CoWIN App to Be Official Vaccine App for India: Registration for CoWIN

Published

3 months ago

January 5, 2021

The Gadget Baba

CoWIN will be the digitisation portal for the launch of COVID-19 vaccines, but as the official software has not been released, do not download any applications from Google Play right now. Make sure you are using the right software from a reliable source before using any app for such a delicate matter. A new CoWIN app has been launched by the central government to carry out and scale up the COVID-19 vaccine delivery system process across the country. The app is said to be in its pre-production stage at present and hasn’t gone live on Google Play or the App Store.

CoWIN (COVID Vaccine Intelligence Network) is intended to be a wireless one-stop portal for streamlining the phased-out vaccination process. IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has also launched a call for developers to update, scale and reinforce the CoWIN platform.

It is currently officially under production and is planned to be released in the future. Details of the app have now appeared as the central government is planning to prescribe the vaccine to frontline staff. These information have been reported on the MeitY (Ministry of Health and Family Welfare) web.

The CoWIN software is said to have several modules: bulk registration administrator modules, self-registration and individual registration beneficiary registration module, beneficiary knowledge authentication vaccination module and vaccination status notifications and SMS warning data, issuance of an electronic vaccination certificate and a CoWIN dashboard with all information including information such as gender, age, mobile phone, vaccination status, date and time of vaccination, place of vaccination, session location, health facility and name of the vaccinator.

Users are currently unable to download the CoWIN app from the app stores, as stated, nor can they register on the official website. Access to the portal is provided to only a few users, and only those users can log in or access the programme. When online, all users should be able to download the software for free and enrol themselves for a vaccine.

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Aadhaar Not Mandatory for Registration on Co-Win Portal

Published

2 months ago

February 6, 2021

The Gadget Baba

The Union Minister of State for Health, Ashwini Choubey, told Lok Sabha on Friday that Aadhaar is not required to be registered with the Co-WIN portal. He claimed that it was created by the Ministry of Health, the Government of India, with the assistance of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), India Office and that the CoWin mobile application has been developed to streamline the Vaccination Campaign in India.

In his written reply Choubey said if Aadhaar was required to register on the Co-WIN application, “No, it is not compulsory for Aadhaar to register in the Co-WIN portal” he further noted that the Co-WIN had incurred a total of Rs. 58.90 lakhs, as on 1 February of this year.

Choubey said, “Yes, privacy impact assessments were carried out for Co-WIN portal. For data safety, data is encrypted using a highly secure key, no unauthorised access to database on AWS server is allowed and restricted access to relational database service (to decrease the risk of malicious activities).”

The Co-WIN application meets the Privacy Policy as specified in the NDHM, he added.

Know how to register on Co-Win.