50L registered on CoWIN for COVID-19 vaccination in 2 days

According to National Health Authority chairperson RS Sharma, "Since yesterday, we have had 50 lakh registrations on CoWIN for COVID-19 vaccination." Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan added that 2.08 lakh doses have been given to people who are aged between 45 and 59 with comorbidities and people more than 60-years-old.

Twenty-five lakh potential beneficiaries had registered on the Co-Win portal on the first day of the second phase of COVID vaccination covering those over 60 and people with specified co-morbidities, over the age of 45. The Ministry said, “Out of this, 24.5 lakh are citizens and the rest are healthcare workers (HCWs) and frontline workers. About 6.44 lakh appointments were booked today by the citizen beneficiaries.”

Though the first day of the wider roll out saw several glitches in registration, with beneficiaries complaining about unavailability of slots, forcing the Health Ministry to issue a clarification stating that “Registration and booking for appointment for COVID vaccination is done through CoWIN Portal - cowin.gov.in. There is no CoWin App for beneficiary registration. The App on Play Store is for administrators only.”