Hyderabad: Right after the CoWIN vaccination portal was opened on Wednesday, the server hung and left people frustrated for quite a while. The registration process, which involves registering either through the Arogya Setu app or Umang or directly by entering your mobile number and getting an OTP, was hung at the OTP stage with many not receiving the OTPs as well.
“I tried for 30 minutes to get an OTP and even then I was unable to login,” said Jaswanth, a city-based entrepreneur. For Rajeev, another youngster from the city, it took 10 attempts to get an OTP and successfully finish the registration process.
After repeated efforts as well, the OTP wasn’t received by many and even in the cases where the OTP was received, the text box to enter the OTP didn’t seem to work.
Though Arogya Setu’s official Twitter account posted at 4.30 pm saying the portal was working and that ‘a minor glitch’ was fixed, at around 5 pm it was still the same, with users either not receiving the OTP or with the portal saying the OTP is invalid, as the OTP was received after the maximum time period of 180 seconds. On the Arogya Setu app, many got the message that the ‘CoWIN server was facing issues’, asking them to try again later.
Source: Telangana Today