Part of: Prelims and GS – III- Science & Tech; GS-II- Health
Context Chairman of the empowered group for COVID-19 vaccine administration has stated that no concern has been expressed by UK government on the certification process of CoWIN.
Also, Indian COVID-19 vaccination certificate conformed to the World Health Organisation (WHO) specifications.
Significance: It is an important step forward in to facilitate travel and fully protect the public health of the U.K. and India
What is CoWIN?
CoWIN (Covid Vaccine Intelligence Work) is the Indian government’s web portal to register for COVID-19 vaccination. It displays slots of COVID-19 vaccine available in the nearby areas and can be booked on the website.
It is a secure and trustworthy proof that helped people establish when, where and by whom they had been vaccinated.
In totality, CoWIN is a cloud-based IT solution for planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of Covid-19 vaccination in India.
This allows the system to monitor the utilisation, wastage, coverage of Covid-19 vaccination at national, state, district and sub-district level.
CoWIN system tracks on a real time basis the vaccination drive in India.
The portal also provides vaccination certificates in digital format
The decision to make CoWIN platform open source and offer it as a digital public good was guided by the approach of ‘One Earth, One Health’.
