Guyana will sign MOU to access Indian vaccine intelligence

GUYANA AND INDIA WILL RATIFY A MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING
(MOU) paving the way for this country to access vital information from the Asian giant’s Covid
Vaccine Intelligence Network (CoWIN) platform, Health Minister Dr Frank Anthony
announced.
Access to the Indian CoWIN platform will enable the health ministry to better track vaccination
data, Minister Anthony explained.
“We’re in discussions with the Indian government and they want us to sign an MOU to which we
have agreed. We are now awaiting the appropriate date when the MOU can be signed and once
that is done, I suppose we would then be able to access it,” he said.
He said that following tremendous interest in the application, India announced that CoWIN will
be made an open source to any country for health interventions globally.
The software, he explained, which will be tailored for local use, will allow the ministry to
observe trends and patterns in the vaccination process, which will contribute positively to the
current process, and would also be useful for future reference.
Guyana’s COVID-19 vaccination record keeping has been quite comprehensive at both the
regional and national levels. Anthony said so far 359,222 adults have received their first dose of
a COVID-19 vaccine, while 199,978 are fully inoculated.
Additionally, 24,460 adolescents have received their first dose of the Pfizer vaccine.