Guyana to sign MOU to access Indian Covid Vaccine Intelligence Network

– Software to be tailored for local use

Minister of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony, MP said once a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) is signed with the Government of India, Guyana will be able to access the Indian Covid Vaccine Intelligence Network (CoWIN).

This was disclosed during Friday’s COVID-19 update at the minister’s secretariat, Brickdam.  The platform will enable the Ministry of Health to better track vaccination data.

“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.”

Following tremendous interest in the application, India announced that CoWIN will be made an open source to any country for health interventions across the world.

The software, 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.

In the meantime, Guyana’s vaccination record keeping has been quite comprehensive at both the regional and national levels. To date, 359,222 adults have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine while 199,978 are fully inoculated. Some 24,460 adolescents have received their first dose of the Pfizer vaccine.