People getting harassed on Cowin portal: registration of people of 18+ age will start from 4 pm; Appointment will be available on availability of private and state government centers

Vaccination of people 18 and older in the country will start from May 1. Registration for this has to start from today i.e. 28 April. The government announced the date for registration, but at what time will registration begin? No information was given about this.

In such a situation, people started trying to register on the Cowin portal, Arogya Setu or Umang App, just after midnight on the night of 27 April. In the event of the process not starting, people were also seen complaining about social media. After this, the government explained the situation through the Arogya Setu App.

Accordingly, for that 18+ age who want to get vaccinated, registration will start from 4 pm on Wednesday. Such people will also get appointments only based on the availability of private and state government centers. That is, people will be given an appointment only based on centers ready for vaccination on May 1.

People angry over the delayed declaration of time

Registration was announced through the Twitter handle of Arogya Setu from 7.50 am to 4 pm. That's why people trying to register well in advance expressed a lot of resentment on social media. He said that the government should have announced the time in advance. People were trying to register for registration since noon on 27 April.

Why is politics happening after vaccinating 18+?

Recently, at a high-level meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the decision was taken to vaccinate the 18+ population of the country. But it is very complicated. Under the policy, after getting approval from the Central Drug Laboratory of Kasauli, 50% of the doses will go to the center and the remaining doses will be distributed to the states and private hospitals.

The central government has signed a deal to pay Rs 150 per dose from Serum Institute for Covishield and Bharat Biotech for Covaxin. For the states, one dose of Covshield will be Rs 400 and one dose of Covaxin will be Rs 600. Companies have fixed this price.

Now there are many questions about this, to which no one currently has answers. For example ... why are there different prices for the governments of the Center and the States? Why is the Center not providing vaccine doses to the states by purchasing itself? How will the distribution of vaccine doses to states and private hospitals be divided?

Politics has also got hot on this. Health Ministers of Rajasthan, Jharkhand, Punjab, and Chhattisgarh have held a joint press conference and said that the Center is treating them with steps. When he asked for a dose from the Serum Institute, he replied that it would not be possible before 15 May. Now, these states are saying that even if it was not in the budget, they will raise the money somehow but if they do not get the vaccine dose then how will they vaccinate 18+?