Don’t make public vaccine stock and storage info, govt tells statesThe data are “owned” by the ministry and can't be made public without its consent, according to a letter written by Pradeep Haldar, advisor...
10 Jun, 2021, 08.25 AM IST
Health ministry ‘gags’ states on vaccine stocks, storage dataA Union health ministry letter to all states and UTs warning that data on vaccine stocks and temperature at all levels of vaccine storage i...
10 Jun, 2021, 08.25 AM IST
Centre asks states not to share data on vaccine stocks, temperature of vaccine storage in publicThe Centre has written to the states and Union territories, advising them not to share the data of the Electronic Vaccine Intelligence Netw...
09 Jun, 2021, 08.54 PM IST
Refrain from sharing sensitive vaccine related details: Health Ministry to statesAccording to the letter written by Pradeep Haldar, advisor, Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) the data on vaccine stock status and temper...
09 Jun, 2021, 04.43 PM IST
India has done well in the development of vaccines: Health Minister Harsh VardhanHe said two of the country's vaccines have been given emergency use authorisation and that in the "next few days or so" vaccines would be a...
08 Jan, 2021, 07.45 PM IST
Message on phone to be ticket to immunityWhile the government has automatically registered healthcare and frontline workers on Co-WIN, others in the priority population groups will...
07 Jan, 2021, 10.29 AM IST
Govt starts contest for strengthening digital network platform for COVID-19 vaccine distributionThe contest will be jointly run by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and the Ministry of Electronics and IT, a statement said.
23 Dec, 2020, 07.41 PM IST
Covid-19: National vaccine administration policy in the works to get jab job done“India has the world’s largest vaccination programme. We already have a robust system of electronic vaccine intelligence network (eVIN), th...
26 Nov, 2020, 06.30 AM IST
India’s election system, logistics sector can be the key to effective COVID-19 vaccine distributionThe pandemic is a call to action for the government machinery and the private sector to work in tandem to ensure effective vaccine deliveri...
21 Nov, 2020, 09.57 AM IST
eVIN system being repurposed for tracking vaccine delivery, says Health Minister VardhanInteracting with the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) via a video link, he mentioned that under Mission Indradhanush, the governmen...
20 Nov, 2020, 10.01 PM IST
Anganwadi centres, schools, panchayat buildings to be used as COVID-19 vaccination sitesAccording to a blueprint deliberated upon by an expert group, state governments would identify buildings which can be used as vaccination b...
06 Nov, 2020, 05.14 PM IST
Government plans special immunisation programme for COVID-19 vaccineThis special COVID-19 immunisation programme would run in parallel with the Universal Immunisation Programme, but will use its processes, t...
23 Oct, 2020, 04.23 PM IST
Electronic Vaccine Intelligence Network to track COVID-19 vaccineA national expert group on COVID-19 vaccine has been constituted to guide the government on prioritisation of population groups for vaccina...
20 Sep, 2020, 03.07 PM IST
eVIN reaches 32 states & UTs, to be rolled-out soon in remaining areas: Health ministryThe eVIN has reached 32 states and Union territories (UTs) and will soon be introduced in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Chandigarh, Ladakh a...
03 Aug, 2020, 07.42 PM IST
Rajasthan village Nayla adopts Evin technology to combat infant mortalityWomen in various roles are using technology to take immunisation efforts of India ahead. The women are still the same today but have donned...
11 Nov, 2017, 06.31 AM IST
Immunisation in Gujarat to get a boost from PM Narendra ModiMission Indradhanush, launched on December 25, 2014, aims at raising vaccination coverage in 201 districts of the country where 50% childre...
03 Oct, 2017, 12.10 AM IST
Over 1 million children under 5 die in India every year: GovernmentHe said the government has initiated an SMS based electronic vaccine intelligence network (e-VIN) to enable real time monitoring of vaccine...
26 Apr, 2016, 03.49 PM IST