Day 2: Turnout just 50% CoWin comes a partial cropper on Tuesday, too

After a gap of two days, the Covid-19 vaccination drive resumed in Mumbai on Tuesday morning, but unlike the first day, there were hardly any beneficiaries rushing to get their shot. On Day 2, the overall turnout was only 50 per cent in the city, with only 1,597 of 3,200 beneficiaries going to the vaccination centres on Tuesday. Civic officials have attributed this drop to the slow functioning of the Co-Win application, which manages the process. There was a similar problem on the eve of the nationwide mass immunisation launch.

The civic body has a target of inoculating 4,000 healthcare workers (HCWs) at the nine centres across the city, but it was learnt there was duplication of the names of 800 HCWs, which was deleted on Tuesday morning, resulting in the number of beneficiaries for the day dropping to 3,200. However, only 1,597 beneficiaries were vaccinated at the end of the day.

The CoWin (Covid Vaccine Intelligence Network) app continued to be plagued by glitches even as the mass vaccination drive resumed on Tuesday morning.

The two-day break in the inoculation drive was not sufficient to iron out issues, it would appear. The technical glitches in the app continued to be problematic for the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), as it was unable to reach the targeted beneficiaries supposed to be inoculated on Tuesday. Civic officials said the new application was posing a problem and requested the state government to resolve the issue with immediate effect, failing which, there would be backlogs and most beneficiaries who were willing to take the vaccines would be left out.