CoWin sign-up is marred by snags, crash
Soon after registration began for vaccination of those aged 18 and above, the CoWin portal crashed on Wednesday. Similar glitches were also reported in the Aarogya Setu App. The complaints poured in from people who were either unable to load the CoWIN website or did not receive the OTPs -the key for logging into the platform.
Many users took to social media and started sharing screenshots of hurdles they faced while attempting to schedule a date on the CoWin portal during the registration process. While some said they were seeing error messages while trying to register, a few others complained they were not receiving the OTP required to log in to CoWin on their phones.
Meanwhile, the Brihanmumbai Mumbai Municipal Corporation on Wednesday said that the 73 vaccination centres in private hospitals would be increased to over 100 and they would cater to all those above 18 years of age. The civic body reiterated that along with this, 227 centres would be set up across all wards in the city for preventing overcrowding.
“I am not able to schedule a slot after getting registered. Is there anything that I am missing in the procedure?? @mygovindia @mybmc #Cowin #cowinregistration #mumbai,” tweeted @sunnysiroya.
in some cases, it took as many as three attempts to complete the registration process on cowin.gov.in, but no appointment could be booked thereafter. While, registration is supposed to be through OTP sent to the mobile number entered by a user, despite receiving the OTP, the website was not allowing one to 'verify and proceed' even after entering the OTP.
“As soon as the registration started I tried to log in, but as the portal was sluggish, the OTP took its time and when we finally entered the OTP, the page showed ‘504 error’. After three attempts I managed to complete the registration process but couldn’t book an appointment slot as it fagged 'no slot available' for the next one week,” said Nikhil Mishra.
“First you don't get the OTP and then once you are lucky enough to step inside the portal, you get to see what you haf-expected! Mumbai has no centres accepting #cowinregistration for 18+. TaDa” tweeted @brshah176.