Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke about the biggest lesson he gets from the Covid-19 pandemic is that all countries have to work together and move ahead together for humanity and the human cause, today.
Labelling the name of Cowin Global Conclave, Modi said, “We have to learn from each other and guide each other about our best practices. Right from the beginning of this pandemic, India has been committed to sharing all our experiences, expertise and resources with the global community in this pandemic.”
Telling about the huge fatalities that happened due to the pandemic he said, there is no parallel to such a pandemic in 100 years. “Experience shows that no nation, however powerful it is, can solve a challenge like this in isolation,” the Prime Minister said.
He also focused on that vaccination is the best hope for humanity to emerge successfully from the Covid-19 pandemic. During the virtual conclave, he further informed, “Technology is integral to our fight against Covid-19. Luckily, the software is one area in which there are no resource constraints. That is why we made our Covid tracing and tracking app open source as soon as it was technically feasible,”
From now on, India will provide Cowin. This a vaccine registration platform, as a digital public good to other nations to conduct their own vaccination drive against the coronavirus disease.
Modi also said through Cowin, people do not have to carry “fragile pieces of paper” to prove anything to get inoculated as details are available in digital format. The software can be customised to any country as per its local requirements, he added.
Fifty countries such as Mexico, Canada, Uganda, Nigeria are interested in adopting Cowin to run their inoculation drives, National Health Authority’s official RS Sharma told news agency PTI on Sunday. India has already started a nationwide vaccination drive on January 16. The doses were administered to citizens in phases. Currently, people above the age of 18 are being inoculated against Covid-19.
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