New Delhi: The CoWIN portal for vaccine registration crashed on Wednesday (April 28) quickly after it opened as people rushed to ebook an appointment for themselves.
Several people took to social media to complain of the location not working.
“CoWIN server is facing issues. Please try later,” learn the error message on the portal that some customers shared on Twitter.
Earlier as we speak, the National Health Authority stated that they anticipated greater than 10 million customers to register on the portal and that the system can be in a position to take the load.
“On many days, we have had around 5 mn people registering in a day. We expect more than double that number today. We think our system will be able to take the load when registrations open today,” stated RS Sharma, CEO of, National Health Authority.
On many days, now we have had round 5 mn people registering in a day. We count on greater than double that quantity as we speak.We assume our system can be in a position to take the load when registrations open as we speak:RS Sharma, CEO,National Health Authority on vaccination for these above 18yrs from May 1 pic.twitter.com/HMLBYKmpFR
— ANI (@ANI) April 28, 2021
The registration window opened at 4 pm for all people above the age of 18 years. They can be in a position to ebook an appointment to get vaccinated towards COVID-19 via the portal.
Meanwhile, the Aarogya Setu app, which additionally has the ability to register for vaccination additionally confronted points as many customers weren’t in a position to ebook appointments.
Phase 3 of the COVID-19 vaccination drive is ready to kick off from May 1. Individuals can be required to furnish a legitimate identification doc such as Aadhaar Card, PAN Card, Voter Card and so forth. After getting vaccinated they’ll obtain a certificates for the identical.
Vaccination will proceed to be supplied freed from value to the eligible inhabitants as outlined earlier which embody Health Care Workers (HCWs), Front Line Workers (FLWs) and all people above 45 years of age at Government of India (GoI) vaccination centres.
