Centre allows onsite registration for age group 18-44 years at govt vaccination centres

May 24: The Union Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoHFW) has now decided to provide the facility of on-site registration/facilitated cohort registration on CoWIN digital platform for the 18-44 years age group. For now, this facility has been extended only to government-run COVID-19 vaccination centres. Also, the respective state and UT governments will have to give permission before this feature of onsite registration of the 18-44 age group at government CVCs can be used. The government further stated that this feature of onsite registration and appointment will presently not be available for private CVCs.

The Union Government has now decided to provide the facility of on-site registration/ facilitated cohort registration on CoWIN digital platform for 18-44 years age group considering the following points:

(i) In case of sessions exclusively organized with online slots, towards the end of the day, some doses may still be left unutilized in case the online appointee beneficiaries do not turn up on the day of vaccination due to any reason. In such cases, on-site registration of a few beneficiaries may be necessary to minimise vaccine wastage.

(ii) Even though CoWIN provides for features such as registration of up to 4 beneficiaries with a mobile number, facilitated registration and appointments through applications, such as Aarogya Setu and Umang and through the Common Service Centres etc., people requiring facilitated cohort’s facility and those without access to internet or smartphones or mobile phones may still have limited access for vaccination.

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🔵On-site Registration/Facilitated Cohort Registration in addition to Online Appointment for 18-44 years age group now Enabled on #CoWIN

🔵Feature enabled only for Government #COVID Vaccination Centers (CVCs), presentlyhttps://t.co/2f9l06v79m

— Ministry of Health (@MoHFW_INDIA) May 24, 2021

Union Health Ministry has further advised States/UTs that abundant caution should be exercised and extreme due care should be taken while opening up on-site registration and appointment for 18-44 years age group, in order to avoid overcrowding at vaccination centres. The Union Health Ministry has advised the States and UTs to issue clear instructions to all District Immunization Officers to strictly adhere to the decision of the respective State/UT Government regarding the extent and manner of using the on-site registration and appointment feature for 18 to 44 years age group.