Data in the CoWin portal is completely safe
The Electronic Vaccine Intelligence Network (eVIN) was developed in 2015 to address some of the challenges of transporting, storing and deploying the vaccines used in India’s Universal Immunisation Programme. By tracking each dose of vaccine as it travels through the country’s vast supply chain, the system is designed to provide real-time monitoring of the entire network, including critical cold chain equipment and sending alerts to staff when, for example, there are problems with refrigeration units.
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, this system has now been expanded beyond the cold chain to cover the entire journey of each vaccine dose, including details of each recipient due to receive the vaccine. This enhanced system, dubbed Co-WIN, not only makes it possible to keep track of who is getting vaccinated, but can also send out reminders to people to make sure they don’t miss their shot. The Co-WIN app notifies people who have registered to get their vaccines from a particular centre, which also gives a clear picture of how many doses are in stock and helps ensure each recipient gets both doses on time.
CoWin Portal Safe, Says Centre, Calls
Data Leak Reports "Mischievous"
A report has claimed
that sensitive personal information of several politicians, bureaucrats, and
individuals - who had signed up on CoWIN - was shared by a bot account on
Telegram.
India NewsReported
by Vasudha VenugopalUpdated: June 12, 2023 5:25 pm
IST
New
Delhi:
The Centre has
assured that data in the CoWin portal -- the country's Covid-19 vaccination
tracking platform -- is completely safe, following reports that personal
information of people registered on the portal has been breached. The reports,
the Centre said, are "mischievous".
"Co-WIN portal of Health Ministry is completely safe with safeguards for data privacy... Only OTP authentication-based Access of Data is provided," read a statement from the Union Health Ministry.
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