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Covid-19 vaccination: Ready for round-3, but no decision on who'll pay

Public vaccination back-end technology in place, private sector role likely in procuring doses for staff

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No decision has been taken yet on who will bear the cost for the upcoming vaccination round meant for 50 plus and those with co-morbidities, according to an official

Nivedita MookerjiSohini Das New Delhi/Mumbai
The government has begun to scale up the Covid-19 vaccination process in multiple steps, but is yet to take a call on how much it would spend.

As part of scaling up, the appointment and registration system for the general public is ready to go live. Such a system will enable anybody over 50 years of age or with co-morbidities to get a date, place and time of own choice for getting the vaccine shots. The Union Health Ministry is expected to open up public vaccination by end of March after registration through Co-WIN, the cloud-based end-to-end IT solution for vaccination,

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