Covid-19 vaccination: Ready for round-3, but no decision on who'll pay

Public vaccination back-end technology in place, private sector role likely in procuring doses for staff

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Coronavirus Vaccine | Coronavirus

Nivedita Mookerji & Sohini Das  |  New Delhi/Mumbai 

The government has begun to scale up the Covid-19 vaccination process in multiple steps, but is yet to take a call on how much it would spend. As part of scaling up, the appointment and registration system for the general public is ready to go live.

Such a system will enable anybody over 50 years of age or with co-morbidities to get a date, place and time of own choice for getting the vaccine shots. The Union Health Ministry is expected to open up public vaccination by end of March after registration through Co-WIN, the cloud-based end-to-end IT solution for vaccination, sources ...

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First Published: Sat, February 13 2021. 06:10 IST
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