Key Points:
- In the first 60 minutes, around 35 lakh individuals registered themselves on the Cowin.gov.in portal.
- “One crore Indians have registered on Co-Win portal to receive the vaccine in a matter of 4 hours on the first day vaccine registrations opened for those aged 18 and above..” said Abhishek Singh, CEO, MyGov, a part of the IT ministry.
- Singh also added by saying, “The CoWIN portal has received as many as 27 lakh hits per minute from Indians registering for the largest vaccination drive in the world.”
The registrations for the Covid-19 vaccine for citizens above the age of 18 opened up yesterday evening on Wednesday. Within a few hours, the served crashed and glitched due to the excessive load of almost 1.32 crore people’s registration.
In the first 60 minutes, around 35 lakh individuals registered themselves on the Cowin.gov.in portal.
The government, on the contrary, said that, aside from a “minor” glitch at 4PM which was fixed soon after, the portal worked smoothly and that media reports about the glitch, were all false.
As many as one crore Indians registered on the portal in just four hours, said Abhishek Singh, CEO, MyGov, a part of the IT ministry.
“One crore Indians have registered on Co-Win portal to receive the vaccine in a matter of 4 hours on the first day vaccine registrations opened for those aged 18 and above. This shows India’s youth wants to get vaccinated, India’s youth is tech-savvy,” he added.
Singh also added by saying, “The CoWIN portal has received as many as 27 lakh hits per minute from Indians registering for the largest vaccination drive in the world.”
The overall vaccination process is being handled and headed by government officials including Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan and Dr R. S. Sharma, chairman, Empowered Group on Technology and Data Management to combat Covid-19, along with assistance from officials like Singh.
For an active like this, the @SetuAarogya on Twitter congratulated the CoWin App saying, “Kudos to Team CoWin for building a truly scalable and robust platform. Handling more than 50,000 API calls per second is mammoth.”
