New Delhi: Nearly 1.33 crore people applied for vaccination on Wednesday as the government’s dedicated website, CoWIN, opened for registrations. Those between 18 and 44 can get Covid shots from May 1 (Saturday).
Vaccinations will begin on Saturday for everyone above 18 from May 1 (Saturday) under a more “liberalised and accelerated Phase 3 strategy of COVID-19 vaccination”.
Those who want to take the vaccine are to go to https://www.cowin.gov.in/home and click on the “register/sign-in” option.
After the fixes, people said the site was working and appointments were being slotted.
After initial glitches, the CoWIN site was getting almost 27 lakh hits a minute, government sources said. Appointments will be based on slots made available by states and private vaccination centres.