Vaccine on horizon, plans are afoot for real-time supply chain tracking

Experts feel it would be critical to spot spurious vaccines, enable faster product recalls and ensure two shots to individual from same manufacturer

As we inch closer to the massive national Covid-19 immunisation drive, steps to ensure tracking of vaccines once in circulation in the market has begun. 

This is will be critical for various reasons - to spot the entry of spurious vaccines in the supply chain, to recall batches in case of any adverse event or manufacturing error, to ensure that the person getting the vaccine gets two shots of the same vaccine from the same manufacturer. 

Not-for-profit global organisations like GS1, which develop standards for business communication (one of them is barcodes) has already submitted a concept paper to the