The campaign to provide Kovid-19 vaccine in India is progressing rapidly. People are registering themselves through CoWIN app to book slots for vaccination. Meanwhile, about 50 countries, including Canada, Mexico, Nigeria and Panama, want to use a CoWIN-like system for their vaccination campaigns. India has also agreed to share ‘open source software’ for free. A senior government official gave this information on Monday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi directed officials to develop an ‘open source software’ of the software and make it available to any country free of cost, Dr RS Sharma, chairman of the Empowered Group for the COVID-19 Vaccine Campaign, said on Monday. is. this.
Several countries interested in CoWIN
Dr RS Sharma said, “The Covin platform has become so popular that around 50 countries from Central Asia, Latin America, Africa have shown interest in using it.” He also said that a global conference of health and technology experts from around the world will be held virtually on July 5 where India will share how the system works. He further added, “CoVin has become very popular in five months and I am glad that now we can help other countries too. If we want to win the war against COVID-19 then we have to work together. The cooperation of the countries is essential.”
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