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.

• 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).

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.