New feature on CoWin to disclose user's vaccination status

Useful for employers in general, and for enterprises like airlines, railways and hotels checking on their staff and customers

A new feature introduced on CoWIN now enables employers and enterprises such as airlines, railways and hotels to check the vaccination status of their staff or customers.

The health ministry said that there was a need to enable an Aadhaar-like authentication service for the status of vaccination through Co-WIN. The health ministry said in a statement, “As the socio-economic activities are being gradually revived while maintaining everyone’s safety, there is a need for a way to digitally convey the status of individuals’ vaccination to entities with whom they may be engaging with…”

This new feature or the application programming interface