Minor hiccups due to app glitches at Hyderabad's Narsingi centre

HYDERABAD: The Covid-19 inoculation process suffered minor setbacks on Day 1 at Narisingi rural health centre due to glitches in the Covid Vaccine Intelligence Network (Co-WIN) application, developed by the Union government for real-time monitoring of the vaccine rollout.
Officials said that there was a delay in starting the vaccination process as they had to manually conduct the process after the Co-WIN app failed to update the names of the beneficiaries.
“Initially, there was a little delay because the names of some beneficiaries who were already registered were not updated in the app. So, we decided to manually complete the registration process and then go ahead with the vaccination as usual. It took us some time, but we were able to finish the exercise at 4pm,” said M Srinivas, health extension officer at Narsingi rural health centre.
“There were also several other healthcare workers who were coming forward to get themselves registered to get the vaccine. While we are taking their details manually for now, we are sure that the minor glitches in the app will be fixed in one or two days,” said Srinivas. All the 30 beneficiaries who were registered were vaccinated here on day 1.