The Central government released new rules for vaccination for people going abroad for education, jobs or as part of the Indian contingent for the Tokyo Olympics. As per the new rules, those going abroad will have to get their CoWIN vaccination certificates linked to their passport.
As per the new rules, they can also take the second dose of the vaccine after 28 days. The government has stated that this facility shall be available to those who need to undertake international travel for the specified purposes till August 3.
As per a report by NDTV, these new rules also state that the mention of vaccine-type as “Covishield” is sufficient and “no other qualifying entries are required.” This answers the queries people had raised in the past few months that whether the Vaccine developed by the Oxford University and AstraZeneca is the only acceptable vaccine abroad.
“It is clarified that Covishield, produced by the Serum Institute of India and approved by the DCGI is one of the vaccines by the WHO for use as on 3rd June 2021,” read the order.
“States/UT governments shall designate a competent authority in each district for according permission for such administration of the second dose of Covishield,” it read further.