Soon after registration for COVID-19 vaccination began for everyone 18 and above at 4 pm on Wednesday, the CoWin portal crashed for a brief period due to the high volume of traffic.
Later, the Centre said 80 lakh people registered themselves on the portal within three hours, from 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm.
Many users took to Twitter to complain that they either could not log in to the portal or were facing other registration issues. While some said they were seeing error messages while trying to register, a few others complained they were not receiving the OTP required to log in to CoWin on their phones.
However, following the initial trouble, the portal started working after some time. Aarogya Setu tweeted, “CoWin Portal is working. There was a minor glitch at 4 PM that was fixed. 18 plus can register.”
R S Sharma, CEO, National Health Authority on registration for vaccination, has said the vacancies available for vaccination at hospitals will be visible after some states and hospitals come on board on May 1, the day when vaccination for people who are 18 and above is slated to begin.
Surjitt Sahani
