{"id":41240,"date":"2024-05-02T16:21:40","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T16:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/02\/covishield-vaccine-row-pm-modis-image-no-more-on-your-vaccination-certificate-heres-why\/"},"modified":"2024-05-02T16:21:40","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T16:21:40","slug":"covishield-vaccine-row-pm-modis-image-no-more-on-your-vaccination-certificate-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/02\/covishield-vaccine-row-pm-modis-image-no-more-on-your-vaccination-certificate-heres-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Covishield Vaccine Row: PM Modi&#8217;s image no more on your vaccination certificate? Here&#8217;s why"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"631\" height=\"308\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/msid-109779381,imgsize-45290.cms?fit=631,308&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Covishield Vaccine Row: PM Modi&#8217;s image no more on your vaccination certificate? Here&#8217;s why\" title=\"Covishield Vaccine Row: PM Modi&#8217;s image no more on your vaccination certificate? Here&#8217;s why\" \/><\/div>\n<div data-brcount=\"13\">The recent admission by vaccine maker <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/astrazeneca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AstraZeneca<\/a> in a UK court, reigniting discussions about <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/covishield\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Covishield<\/a>&#8216;s potential side effect of <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/thrombosis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thrombosis<\/a> with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome (<a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/tts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TTS<\/a>), has prompted many in India to review their <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/vaccination-certificates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vaccination certificates<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--\/article_liveblog.cms?msid=107107653potime:1-->On blogging platform X (formerly Twitter), some users flagged the absence of <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/narendra-modi\" rel=\"noopener\">PM Modi<\/a>&#8216;s photograph on the Covid-19 vaccination certificates.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Modi ji no more visible on COVID Vaccine certificates. Just downloaded to check \u2013 yes, his pic is gone,&#8221; a user named Sandeep Manudhane wrote. <\/p>\n<div data-type=\"twitter\" data-handle=\"sandeep_PT\" data-handlename=\"sandeep_PT\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" data-retweetcount=\"0\" data-id=\"1785614681463288023\">\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>\u2014 sandeep_PT (@sandeep_PT) <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sandeep_PT\/status\/1785614681463288023\" rel=\"nofollow\"\/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Others speculated that this change in the vaccination certificate format could be linked to recent concerns over Covishield, which is produced by the <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/serum-institute-of-india\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Serum Institute of India<\/a> (SII) under a licensing agreement with AstraZeneca.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to queries about the absence of Modi&#8217;s photo on the certificates, officials from the <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/ministry-of-health-and-family-welfare\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ministry of Health and Family Welfare<\/a> informed <em>ThePrint<\/em> that this alteration was due to the <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/model-code-of-conduct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Model Code of Conduct<\/a> (MCC) enforced during the ongoing Lok Sabha polls.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first instance of Modi&#8217;s photo being removed from vaccination certificates. In 2022, his photo was omitted from certificates issued in five states \u2013 Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Manipur, and Goa \u2013 at the directive of the <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/election-commission-of-india\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Election Commission of India<\/a> (ECI) ahead of assembly elections in those states, reported <em>The Print<\/em>. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/india\/covishield-vaccine-row-pm-modis-image-no-more-on-your-vaccination-certificate-heres-why\/articleshow\/109779381.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent admission by vaccine maker AstraZeneca in a UK court, reigniting discussions about Covishield&#8216;s potential side effect of Thrombosis with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome (TTS), has prompted many in India to review their vaccination certificates. On blogging platform X (formerly Twitter), some users flagged the absence of PM Modi&#8216;s photograph on the Covid-19 vaccination certificates. &#8220;Modi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/msid-109779381,imgsize-45290.cms","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[602],"tags":[29413,22626,41460,2091,671,5928,43110,6153,3135,3129,371,21775,40935,40934,36850,43111,13157],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41242,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41240\/revisions\/41242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}