An app developed by the Centre to make sure a clean vaccination course of began malfunctioning on Friday, officers mentioned on Saturday, hampering immunisation centres’ efforts to tell beneficiaries in regards to the time they had been to obtain the vaccine photographs.
Sources mentioned that not all of the 20,700 individuals scheduled to obtain the vaccine on the primary day obtained their photographs due to the glitches in CoWIN.
Instead of getting automated messages, the beneficiaries obtained cellphone calls from the centres, informing them in regards to the date, vaccination website and timing. As the information of these eligible to obtain the photographs was not uploaded to the app on time, most of the beneficiaries didn’t obtain the messages, and by the point they had been known as they’d left for different work.
“I was waiting for the message. Since I did not receive any message, I did not turn up and later I came to know that my name was on the list. They have asked me to report in the evening, let’s see if I will be able to make it,” a Group-D employee at a medical facility instructed The Indian Express on the situation of anonymity.