Keypoints:
- Currently, onsite registration for 18-44 age group is enabled only at Government vaccination centres.
- This feature is unavailable for private CVCs and they will have to publish their vaccination schedules with slots for online appointments.
- Fully reserved sessions can also be organised in order to provide vaccination services to the beneficiaries who belong to facilitated cohorts.
Union Health Ministry has decided to provide the on-site registration facility on the CoWin digital platform for the 18-44 age group. This feature is available only for government Covid vaccination centres and not for private vaccination centres.
Due to any reason, if the online appointed beneficiary does not turn up on the day of vaccination, some doses may still remain unutilised and in such cases, on-site registration of a few beneficiaries may be necessary to avoid wastage of vaccination.
CoWin digital portal has the feature where a person can register upto 4 beneficiaries with single phone number. Facilitated registration and appointments like the ArogyaSetu and Umang and through the Common Service Centres etc., people requiring facilitated cohort’s facility and the ones who do not have internet access, smartphones and mobile phones may still have limited access to the vaccination.
Union Health Ministry has said that this feature is enabled only for government Covid vaccination centres and it will not be available for private CVCs. Private CVCs will have to publish their vaccination schedules with slots for online appointments.
State and Union Territories must decide on the registration of on-site facilitated cohorts’s registration for the 18-44 years age group based on the local context just as an additional measure to minimize vaccine wastage and for facilitating vaccination of eligible beneficiaries in the age group 18-44 years.
All the District Immunization Officers have been advised by the Union Health Ministry to strictly adhere to the decision of 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.
Further, Union Health Ministry has also advised that extreme caution and care must be exercised while opening up on-site registration and appointment for 18-44 years age group, to avoid crowding at vaccination centres.
