Vaccination certificates will be issued for only such COVID-19 vaccines which are approved for emergency use in India and to only such volunteers who participated in the trials for such vaccines, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said in a letter.
Bhushan further said that the Union Health Ministry will provide data template to ICMR for compilation of relevant vaccination data for participants of an unblinded trials, so that necessary details required for issuing certificates can be captured on Co-WIN.
Presently, three vaccines are approved by the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) for the emergency use in India – Oxford/AstraZeneca Covishiedl vaccine manufactured by Serum Institute of India, Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin, and the Russian Sputnik V.
