Covid-19 Vaccine: How to register for corona vaccination in India: Your step-by-step guide

Covid-19 Vaccine Latest Update, Corona Vaccine Registration in India: Here’s everything you need to know about India’s biggest vaccination drive and how to register yourself as a beneficiary

How to Register for Corona Vaccine in India: The government started with the dry run for Covid-19 vaccination in most of the states. Soon a section of the population will receive their first vaccine shot. Preparation for administering doses at vaccine centers, logistics requirements, and other arrangements are also in full swing. The country’s top drug regulator, DCGI has approved Oxford’s COVID-19 vaccine Covishield and Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin for restricted emergency use.

Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan recently announced that vaccination in its first phase for priority group beneficiaries in all states will be free. “I appeal to the people not to be misguided by rumors regarding safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccine. We will not compromise on any protocol before approving a vaccine,” Vardhan said underlining that vaccine hesitancy was an issue even when the country started polio immunization drive, but “we must remember its success”.

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Here’s everything you need to know about India’s biggest vaccination drive and how to register yourself as a beneficiary:

Who will get the vaccine first

Covid-19 Vaccine for Healthcare workers

According to the recommendations of the National Expert Group on Vaccine Administration for Covid-19 (NEGVAC) one crore, health workers working with both government and private hospitals will be first in the line to be inoculated.

The priority group has been further divided into sub-categories as frontline workers, Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) workers, nurses and supervisors, paramedical staff, medical officers, support staff, and medical students.

All the data has been collected from the health care facilities and is being uploaded into Co-WIN, the digitalized platform to be used to effectively roll out and scale up the mechanism for Covid Vaccine Distribution System.

Covid-19 Vaccine for  Frontline workers

Two crore frontline workers employed with central and state Police services, armed forces, civil defense organization, disaster management, home guard, prison staff, municipal workers, revenue officials working with Covid-19 surveillance, and other associated activities.

Workers associated with state government and ministries of defense, urban affairs, housing will also receive the vaccination in the first phase

Covid-19 Vaccine for People aged above 50 years

This group will be further divided into people above the age group pf 60 years and people above the age of 50 years with co-morbidities. The latest electoral roll of Assembly or Lok Sabha elections will be used as a reference to identify the population for immunization.

Age will be calculated based on the cut-off date of 1st January 2021 and anyone born on or before 1st January 1971 will fall under this category.

Areas recording high Covid-19 infection rate

States and UTs at their discretion can do priority phasing of vaccine roll out in geographical areas where the infection is high.

Covid-19 Vaccine for the remaining population

Population below 50 years of age with associated comorbidities based on the evolving pandemic situation like diabetes, cancer, hypertension, lung diseases, etc, and finally to the remaining population based on the disease epidemiology and vaccine availability.

How to register for vaccination at session site

Common Service centers need to be utilized for self-registration and identity certification of the general population. The self-registration module will be made available in the later phases of implementation.

Individuals can select the method of authentication from the following methods

Biometric: With this demographic details of the individual from name to a permanent address in the Aadhaar card will autofill the platform.

OTP Authentication: An OTP will be sent to the registered mobile number with an Aadhaar card. If the OTP authentication is successful, the demographic details of the individual as per the Aadhaar will auto-populate.

Demographic Authentication: An individual can also enter all demographic details manually i.e. Name, DoB, gender, and select Demo Authentication. A green tick will appear confirming the same.

An individual interested to register will be required to provide a photo identity from one of the following:

· Aadhaar Card;

· Driving License;

· Health Insurance Smart Card issued under the scheme of Ministry of Labour;

· MNREGA Job Card;

· Official identity cards issued to MPs/MLAs/MLCs;

· PAN Card;

· Passbook issued by Bank/Post Office;

· Passport;

· Pension Document;

· Service Identity Card issued to employees by Central/State Govt./PSUs/ Public Limited Companies;

· Smart Card issued by RGI under NPR;

· Voter ID

Photo identity can either be uploaded on the Co-WIN system (in PDF, JPG or PNG file formats) or can be pulled from the existing Digi Locker account of the individual

Once registered, the date and time will be allocated for vaccination. There will be no spot registration facility and only pre-registered beneficiaries will be allowed to proceed with vaccination.

District Collector (DC)/District Magistrate (DM) with the support of the District Immunization Officer will link the sessions sites, vaccinators, supervisors, and beneficiaries and decide the dates and time for conducting the vaccination session. The respective district administration will approve the beneficiaries for session and site allocation. Co-WIN has inbuilt monitoring and reporting mechanism.

How the sessions have been planned

An ideal session site should have three demarcated rooms/areas:

1. Waiting Room/Area;

2. Vaccination Room; and

3. Observation Room

How the Vaccination Team has been arranged

Every session will be managed by a 5 membered team with defined responsibilities:

Vaccination Officer-1: In-charge of pre-checking registration status of beneficiary and photo ID verification before entering the waiting room/area. Vaccination Officer-1 will be assisting in making queues/ crowd management

Vaccination Officer 2: In-charge of authenticating/ verify document in the Co-WIN system (Health / ICDS / other government departments e.g. election model)

Vaccinator Officer: In-charge of vaccinating the beneficiaries (Doctors (MBBS / BDS/AYUSH), Staff Nurse, Pharmacist, ANM, LHV).

Vaccination Officer 3 and 4: In-charge of crowd management, ensuring 30-minute wait, monitoring for any AEFI symptoms, guiding non-registered beneficiaries

Vaccination conducted at the health facilities – both government and private – where either a medical officer or a doctor is available is defined as a fixed session site. Schools and community halls will be outreach session sites while there will be special mobile teams for remote areas or migratory populations and international border areas.

All COVID-19 vaccination sessions will be conducted from 9 am to 5 pm.

Source: financialexpress.com

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