Issuing COVID-19 Vaccination Certificates in India
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The Government of India launched the COVID-19 vaccination program in January 2021. The roll-out of the Co-WIN application was key to this. While the cloud-based platform covered all the major modules that a vaccination program of this scale should have, it lacked the digital credentialing feature that was critical to open up travel and economy amid the COVID-19 pandemic. DIVOC was integrated with Co-WIN in January 2021, making India the first country where the digital verifiable credentialing was implemented. Over 1.9 billion vaccination certificates have been issued in India so far.
Since India was the first country to implement DIVOC, a component-wise release was done as there was no generic version available back then. Hence, the release versions are component-specific:
Certificate generation services: dockerhub/divoc-certification-ack
1.0.16
Certificate generation services: dockerhub/certificate_processor
1.0.16
Certificate generation services: dockerhub/certificate_signer
1.0.22
Certificate generation services: dockerhub/vaccination_api
1.0.27
Certificate generation services - Commonly-used component: dockerhub/registry
1.0.19
Certificate generation services - Commonly-used component: dockerhub/caching-dash-server
1.0.20
Verification component: dockerhub/verification
1.0.29
Certificate reconciliation services: dockerhub/reconciliation
1.0.3
Fetch certificate services: dockerhub/digilocker_support_api
1.0.59
Fetch certificate services: dockerhub/registry
1.0.19
Dashboard: dockerhub/analytics_feed
1.0.17
A certificate is generated in real-time every time a person’s vaccination record is created in Co-WIN. Citizens get the latest dose certificate, which could be provisional, final, or the precaution dose. Two types of certificates are issued: domestic (age is mandatory) and international travel certificates (date of birth is mandatory). Further, DIVOC certificates (domestic) can be generated in 22 languages in India.
Besides Co-WIN, DIVOC’s certificate module has been integrated with , , and , so that citizens can download their certificates after vaccination from any of these portals/apps by using their registered mobile number.
Reconciliation service: This service was introduced in India to resolve any initial (bulk) data entry discrepancy such as date of vaccination.
DIVOC’s integration with CoWIN enables verification of the QR code-based vaccination certificates by using DIVOC’s verification utility embedded within Co-WIN.
This feature can be used by citizens if the name, age, gender, date of vaccination, or other details on their vaccination certificate are incorrect.
This feature is also used in India.
DIVOC has set up a for India, which gives a snapshot of the total number of certificates issued, and accessed.
The international certificates issued in India for citizens traveling abroad are based on the data specification.
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