Centre issues warning against fake 'Co-WIN' apps

January 06, 2021 20:10

As the government is working to launch the Covid Vaccine Intelligence Network (Co-WIN) app, the Union ministry of health and family welfare on Wednesday warned people against sharing any personal details on some applications on app stores with the same name as that of the official one.

The health ministry said the official platform will be adequately publicised on its launch.

Some apps named CoWIN apparently created by unscrupulous elements to sound similar to upcoming official platform of Govt, are on App stores. Dont download or share personal information on these. Dept official platform will be adequately publicised on its launch, the ministry said, according to news agency ANI.

Co-WIN has been created by the Centre as a digitised platform for rolling out vaccines against the coronavirus disease (Covid-19). The app is in the pre-product stage and is not available for public use.

Data of healthcare and frontline workers is being registered on the app at present and more than 7.5 million beneficiaries were registered during the nationwide dry run which took place on January 2.

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