On Wednesday the centre informed states that a new feature has been added to the Co-Win platform. This new feature will enable the vaccination sites to vaccinate additional unscheduled beneficiaries which will help for a better coverage. With the help of Co-Win platform total of 7.86 lakh beneficiaries are getting the first dose of vaccines till now.
Informing the states about the new feature, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan wrote, “Features of session scheduling, beneficiary allocation, and allocation of additional beneficiaries at the session site have been further redefined”,
“The feature of ‘Allot Beneficiary’ in an ongoing session has been added in the vaccinator module and is live…the feature has been added to facilitate maximum utilisation of staff deployed at the session sites so that they can cater to the optimal number of beneficiaries per sessions,” he further wrote.
However, the new feature will only be applicable to additional beneficiaries “whose name exists in the database”. “A person’s name can be searched in the database by the mobile number provided at the time of uploading his/her data in the beneficiary database.”
Although he has also recommended to use the new feature very carefully and asked the site in charge to do a “careful assessment during the day of numbers of scheduled beneficiaries likely to turn up during the day”. “…better coverage would be possible, but it may be ensured that those scheduled to be vaccinated in a session may not be denied on account of others having being vaccinated.”
The Health Ministry also said “no case of serious/severe AEFI is attributable to vaccination as of now”.
