India's ambitious vaccination campaign which has already covered over 1 crore healthcare workers, aims to cover 30 crore people by August

Dr Harsh Vardhan tweeted, 'Appreciate PIB Fact Check and MoHFW for their swift response to bust a fake website collecting money on the pretext of registration for COVID-19 Vaccination'

As per the guidelines issued by the health ministry on December 28 2020, initially around 30 crore Indians will be vaccinated, including around three crore healthcare and frontline workers

Coronavirus vaccine: The CoWIN app is being populated with the data of 1 crore healthcare workers who would receive the coronavirus vaccine in the first phase. So far only officials have access to it

The Co-WIN (COVID Vaccine Intelligence Network) app, a digital platform created for real-time monitoring of COVID-19 vaccine delivery and distribution by the Centre, is in its final stage of implementation and has not gone live on Google Play Store or any other app store

The government's CoWIN app is still under development or the pre-production stage and will soon be available to Android and iOS users to download for free and will be \"adequately publicised\" on launch, noted the Ministry of Health.

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) issued the new order, justifying the need for surveillance despite a decline in the rate of positive COVID-19 cases owing to the new mutation of the virus found in the UK

The challenge invites participation from innovative startups and emerging technology specialists to augment and scale the CoWIN platform. CoWin is a digitalised platform that will be used to effectively roll out and scale up the mechanism for COVID Vaccine Distribution System nationally

The Ministry of health and family welfare's SOP pertains to all those who have travelled from or transited through the UK in the past 4 weeks

The COVID-19 vaccine in India will be first offered to healthcare workers, frontline workers and persons above 50 years of age. Depending on the disease epidemiology and vaccine's availability, the remaining population will be vaccinated later on

Centre will bear the cost of this vast inoculation exercise. States like Bihar and Kerala have already announced that coronavirus vaccines will be administered for free. Others are also expected to make similar announcements

The government is planning to administer only 100 coronavirus vaccine shots a day at each site

The National Expert Group on Vaccine Administration for COVID-19 (NEGVAC) was constituted under the chairmanship of Member (Health) of Niti Aayog V K Paul on August 7 to prepare a strategy for the roll-out of COVID-19 vaccine

India set to become the world's second country, after the US, to cross 10 million or one crore cases of coronavirus infections by this week

\"India has entered a crucial phase in the fight against COVID-19 pandemic. We cannot afford to let our guard down at this juncture,\" says Mukesh Ambani

MoHFW added that these committees will review preparatory activities like cold chain preparedness, operational planning, strategies for state-specific challenges in terms of geographical terrain and hard-to-reach areas, etc

The health ministry has recommended companies to disallow workers/employees from sharing pens, phones, computers, or other work tools and pieces of equipment

Unlock 5: The central government has permitted opening of Cinemas/ theatres/ multiplexes with upto 50 per cent of their seating capacity, for which, SOP will be issued later

The number of active cases in Maharashtra, the worst-hit state by the pandemic stands at 2,75,404. The death toll due to the disease stands at 34,345 in the state

External spraying of any chemical disinfectant does not kill a virus that has already entered the body of a person, who has earlier been exposed to the virus