CoWIN Portal

Source:  TH

Context: The CoWIN portal, India’s flagship digital platform for COVID-19 vaccination records, has been unavailable since early August 2025, blocking access to vaccination certificates.

About CoWIN Portal:

• What it is?

• • CoWIN (COVID Vaccine Intelligence Network) is a government digital platform for registration, scheduling, tracking, and certification of COVID-19 vaccinations.
  • It serves as an end-to-end public health management tool from the national to the vaccinator level.

• Launched in: January 2021, during India’s COVID-19 vaccination drive.
• Ministry: Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW).
• Aim:

• • To provide a transparent, efficient, and real-time system for vaccination delivery.
  • To ensure equitable access, identity verification, tracking of doses, and certification for every beneficiary.

• Key Features:

• • Five Modules:
    • Orchestration module (overall management).
    • Vaccination cold-chain module (vaccine logistics).
    • Citizen registration module (self and bulk registration).
    • Vaccinator module (session management).
    • Certificate, feedback & adverse-event reporting module.
  • Integration: Accessible through CoWIN website, Aarogya Setu app, UMANG app, and DigiLocker.
  • Authentication Methods: OTP, biometric, and demographic authentication.
  • Real-Time Tracking: Monitors beneficiaries, vaccine doses, wastage, and coverage at national, state, district, and sub-district levels.

• Significance:

• • Enabled over 2 billion vaccine doses to be administered and certified digitally.
  • Became a global model of digital public good, offered to other countries in 2021.
  • Certificates served as key documents for travel, employment, and access to services during the pandemic.