Government has termed the media reports suggesting that even a successful booking on the CoWIN platform for a vaccination slot does not assure one of a Covid-19 vaccine jab as baseless. The Health Ministry has said these reports are not supported by full information on the matter. It added that Co-WIN platform facilitates registration, appointments, vaccination and certification of beneficiary and the availability of slots on the Portal is based on the vaccination schedule published by District Immunization Officer(DIOs).<br />”&nbsp;<br />”States and Union Territories have been advised that they should publish vaccination slots based on the availability of vaccines. The Ministry said, it was noticed that in some cases the DIOs were publishing a session and then in case vaccines were in short supply, they used to cancel such sessions or return the beneficiaries.<br />”&nbsp;<br />”<span style="color: #222222;">To remove this problem, CoWIN has now provided the feature for rescheduling of vaccination sessions so that the DIO does not have to cancel the sessions. The Ministry said the provision has been made that pre-booked appointments for a session, also get rescheduled when a session is rescheduled. In such cases now the beneficiary will not have to take a fresh appointment. They will receive an SMS informing them about rescheduling of their session.</span><br />