New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry cautioned Wednesday people against downloading and sharing personal information on some apps named Co-WIN. Health Ministry officials said that these apps have been created by unscrupulous elements. These similar sounding apps have nothing to do with the government app Co-WIN which will be launched soon. The government app is mandatory for the vaccination process in India
“Some apps named ‘Co-WIN’ apparently created by unscrupulous elements to sound similar to upcoming official platform of Government, are on Appstores. DO NOT download or share personal information on these. MoHFW Official platform will be adequately publicised on its launch,” the Union Health ministry tweeted Wednesday.
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The Co-WIN (COVID Vaccine Intelligence Network) app is a digital platform created for real-time monitoring of COVID-19 vaccine delivery and distribution by the Centre. It is almost in its final stages of implementation and hasn’t gone live on Google play store or any other app store.
Meanwhile, states and UTs have collected data of healthcare and frontline workers. They will be administered the anti-coronavirus vaccine on first priority and the data is being uploaded on the Co-WIN software, the ministry said.
The Health Ministry had earlier at a press conference stated that ‘Co-WIN digital platform includes a free downloadable mobile application which can help record vaccine data. One can register themselves on it if they want the vaccine. There will be five modules in Co-WIN app – administrator module, registration module, vaccination module, beneficiary acknowledgement module and report module’.