The Centre on Wednesday recorded nearly 1.33 crore registrations for coronavirus vaccination from May 1. Minutes after the registration op...
The Centre on Wednesday recorded nearly 1.33 crore registrations for coronavirus vaccination from May 1.
Minutes after the registration opened up for all adults in India at 4 pm on Wednesday, the government’s CoWin portal and the Aarogya Setu app crashed for users across the country. Many complained that the site was not responsive, while others said they were not receiving a one-time password to finish the verification process.
At 4.35 pm, Aarogya Setu, the central government’s contact-tracing app to contain coronavirus, said the CoWin portal was working. “There was a minor glitch at 4 pm that was fixed,” it said. But some social media users flagged that the website and app were still not responsive. Others said that despite completing the registration, they were unable to book a slot for vaccination.
But after these initial glitches, more than 35 lakh people registered in the first hour, Aarogya Setu said in a tweet.
So we close Day 1 with 1.32 Cr Registrations on https://t.co/xWRsgcZ3lD. Kudos to Team CoWin for building a truly scalable and robust platform. Handling more than 50000 API calls per second is mammoth!! #LargestVaccinationDrive pic.twitter.com/DafOrdMfBP
— Aarogya Setu (@SetuAarogya) April 28, 2021
So far, there have been a total of 14,80,67,697 registrations on Co-Win. However, a major portion of this, over 9.33 crore,...
