COVID-19 Vaccination Program
India's drug regulator has granted restricted emergency use to Oxford-AstraZeneca's Covishield and our indigenously developed Covaxin of Bharat Biotech in the country.
In our country the vaccination drive to kick off on 16th January, 2021 after the forthcoming festivals including Pongal ,Lohri, Makar Sankranti and Magh Bihu.
With World largest COVID-19 vaccination program India
is aiming to vaccinate 300 million people – a quarter of the country’s population – by the end of the summer.
The government has decided to first administer the vaccines to high-risk groups: healthcare workers, frontline workers, people above 50 years of age and those with co-morbidities like diabetes, hypertension, cancer and lung diseases.
To start with, only pre-registered people will be eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine (on-the-spot registration is not an option). Registration is to be done on the COVID Vaccine Intelligence Network (Co-WIN) system that has been described as a “digitalised platform to track the enlisted beneficiaries for vaccination and COVID-19 vaccines on a real-time basis.
The platform can be accessed at http://www.co-vin.in/
Registration for COVID-19 vaccination would involve authentication through a photo identity card which includes all major government identity documents such as voter identity card, driving license, Aadhaar.
Our district is tuned up to implement the COVID-19 vaccination program in war footing manner
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