Unlike the current limit of four family members, six members can now be registered using a mobile number on the COIN portal for COVID-19 vaccination, as the government announced changes to the system on Friday.
“In continuation of the update on various utility features of Co-Win for the beneficiaries, the following features have been added to the self-registration portal of Co-Win: a) Registration on Co-Win – instead of the existing limit of 4 members, now 6 members can be registered using a mobile number on Co-Win…,” the Union Health Ministry said in a statement.
Also, since some of the registered beneficiaries are getting wrong messages about their vaccination status, the government has made a provision to cancel the vaccination status in the Cowin system.
“A new utility facility has been introduced under raising an issue in the Co-Win account, through which a beneficiary can transfer the fully immunized status to the partially vaccinated or non-vaccinated status,” the health ministry statement said. Can cancel and partially vaccinate in case of vaccination. ,
The ministry also clarified that the vaccination status can be corrected by the beneficiaries, wherein occasional isolated cases, the vaccination certificates are generated due to inadvertent data entry errors by the vaccinator in updation of vaccination data of beneficiaries.
The changes, however, may reflect 3-7 days after submitting the online request through raising an issue utility on the portal. Such beneficiaries can get their due vaccine dose, maybe at the nearest vaccination center, as per the existent standard guidelines once the new vaccination status is successfully updated in the system.
The backbone of the Covid-19 vaccine delivery system has been Cowin, the IT platform modified for the implementation of the national immunization program.
The Cowin platform was created by upgrading the earlier digital platform used for Universal Immunization Program (UIP) vaccine distribution based on Electronic Vaccine Intelligence Network (eVIN) system.
The government has been making changes at regular intervals to the system to make it easier for the beneficiaries to avail of the facility.
“From self-registration to making changes in personal details, and to be able to download your digital vaccination certificate, etc., the system has been modified over a period of time for the ease of beneficiaries; to make the process convenient for them. User feedback has also been important for us as it has helped in making the system better. Initially, there were some issues but with time and improvement it is functioning very well,” said a senior government official aware of the matter, on condition of anonymity.
