Vaccination Certificates Via CoWIN For Covishield, Covaxin Trial Participants

Over 11,300 adults who participated in the clinical trials of Covishield and Covaxin, the two vaccines first deployed by India in its battle against the Covid pandemic, have received their digital vaccination certificates through the Co-WIN platform, the government said today. The participants would be able to download their individual certificates through the Co-WIN Portal, Aarogya Setu, Digilocker, or UMANG apps, a Press Information Bureau release has said. The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) had provided the data for 11,349 such persons to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, it said. "The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare had received several requests from the trial participants for digital vaccination certificates through Co-WIN," the release said. "It was decided that vaccination certificates may be issued to such participants who were administered the vaccines during these trials/studies, after the trials/studies were unblinded."