JAIPUR: Online glitches continued to give a tough time to the health department on second day of the 2nd phase of Covid-19 vaccination for those above 60 and above 45 with specified comorbid conditions, forcing the vaccination team to complete the process offline by feeding beneficiary details on Co-Win app later.
The state completed administering 10 lakh first doses of vaccination after 1,41,233 beneficiaries got vaccinated in all categories on Tuesday, taking the overall tally to 10,05,225. Despite glitches, the department managed to register a significant rise in beneficiaries.
‘Will set up 300 sites across Jaipur’
As many as 1,23,522 beneficiaries above 60 years and 9,500 above 45 years got vaccinated on the second day. This was 55,250 beneficiaries of above 60 years and 3,768 above 45 years on the first day. Over the past two days, 1,78,772 citizens in the above 60 years and 13,268 in above 45 years categories have been vaccinated.
The department has alerted the Centre about the frequent glitches in the online system. Officials said that they were in touch with the Centre and were making provisions to allow vaccination centres to file vaccination data till 5pm the next day. The Centre has acknowledged that there were some glitches in the Co-Win platform due to the higher number of registrations suddenly.
The app issues resulted in queues of beneficiaries getting longer at vaccination centres in Jaipur.
“We asked all vaccination centres not to keep beneficiaries waiting and collect data and feed them online later,” said Dr Narrottam Sharma, chief medical health officer, Jaipur-I.
The department said that though they had plans to increase the number of vaccination centres in Jaipur, due to problems in the software, they had to postpone it. “We want to increase the centres but are unable to do so. In two to three days, we will scale up the drive and set up 300 sites across Jaipur,” said Dr Sharma. In Jaipur, vaccinations are being done at 82 sites.
Clarifying the process of online registration, Dr Raghuraj Singh, project director (immunisation), health department, said, “Beneficiaries can register online on Co-Win portal. Co-Win app is only for administrative use.”