The vaccination drives have started in full swing in the country. Those who have got their shots in the country can log in to Co-Win portal to download their certificates. Now with things opening up, people can show these certificates and travel seamlessly. For example, when the local trains open for the general public, people will need to share their vaccination certificates.
People that had received their jabs abroad were facing an issue in this regard. To address this concern, a government official has announced that Indians and foreigners that have received their COVID-19 vaccination will be able to get a certificate via the Co-Win portal. Another concern that people had was related to the vaccination. Currently, Pfizer and Johnson and Johnson have not got approval for emergency use in India. To address it has also been said that even vaccination not approved in India will be covered in this.
Commenting on this, Dr N.K. Arora, Chairman, India’s COVID-19 working group of the National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (NTAGI) told agencies, “There have been several requests and enquiries from people in this regard. There are Indians or foreigners who have received one or two doses of vaccines such as Pfizer or Sinopharm in other countries and are planning to come and stay in India. The said vaccines along with many others are not approved in India. In a bid to smoothen the process for such people, we are working out a provision".
He further added, “Vaccination certificate holds importance everywhere in the world for varied purposes. But for the vaccination certificate in India, a person who is already vaccinated need not to take the jabs again here. We will ensure that such people can get vaccination certificates through Co-WIN platform. We will soon enable this feature in our nationwide covid-19 vaccination programme".
Currently, there are three vaccines that are being administered in India - Covishield, Covaxin and Sputnik V. Recently, Moderna too has got an emergency use approval.
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