Reports claiming beneficiaries being Registered as Double Vaccinated without Receiving Both Doses are Misleading: Health Ministry

A section of media has reported the claim of some people who said that they never received both the doses of the vaccines however they have been registered as fully vaccinated or double vaccinated in the CoWIN application.

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has dismissed these reports as baseless and misleading. In a press note released to the media, the Ministry said, “There have been some media reports in international media alleging a “vaccination fraud” and further claiming that people are being fraudulently registered as double vaccinated without receiving both doses. These reports have also alleged that the vaccination “figures were being manipulated”. It is clarified that such media reports are not only misleading but are completely ill-informed and without any basis.”

It added, “The headline of the said news report itself is misleading. The authors perhaps are not aware that it is the health workers themselves that enter vaccination event data in Co-WIN system. The claim of the authors that the very health workers who enter the data have alleged irregularities, indicates that the authors do not have any understanding of the processes of vaccination event recording on Co-WIN.”

The Ministry has claimed that India’s vaccination drive has strong technical support through Co-WIN digital platform which has done exceptionally well.

“India’s nation-wide COVID vaccination drive is the largest such drive globally. It is supported with a strong technology backup provided by Co-WIN digital platform that has performed exceptionally in the last more than one year of the COVID vaccination drive. All the COVID vaccinations are recorded in this digital platform,” the Ministry said.