Gurugram: Snags in Co-WIN app, only 41% health workers inoculated

Gurugram, Jan 18 : Gurugram reported Co-WIN application glitches in all its 45 vaccine session sites on the second day of the inoculation drive on Monday, resulting in only 41 per cent of the healthcare workers getting the vaccine jabs, which was lesser than the targeted numbers, health officials said.
The officials involved in the drive claimed that they have faced difficulties in operating the Covid Vaccine Intelligence Network (Co-WIN) application due to the technical snags.
The app was developed by the Centre to monitor and track the vaccination programme.
“We had sent SMSes to alert the healthcare workers in advance but on Monday the application was not working properly and sometimes it was slow, so we could not uploaded the details of the beneficiaries and due to this we could not achieve a 100 per cent target on Monday,” Virender Yadav, Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Gurugram told IANS.
The health officials said that at the vaccination centres they have faced some technical issues while uploading the data on the app about beneficiaries receiving the vaccine, as the application was reported to have slowed down or some time it showed network errors.
According to the official data, out of 4,836 healthcare workers only 2,881 were administered the Covid-19 vaccine shots on Monday.