Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar says Telegram bot was not accessing CoWIN database directly, but may be showing information from 'previously stolen data'.
National average on 27 December was 62 per cent. ‘Vaccine indifference’, strike by healthcare staff cited as reasons for pace of vaccination in Punjab.
Booked slots on CoWIN are a problem of the ‘announce-now, plan-later’ method that India loves so much. Millennials desperately want some of that vaccine maitri.
As people struggle to find slots at Covid vaccination centres, many software developers and tech companies are providing real-time updates to help people book appointments.
Dr R.S. Sharma, also the CEO of National Health Authority, said that preparations had been made to handle the increased traffic and refuted reports of worsening CoWin glitches.
Day one of second phase of vaccination drive saw many complaints from people trying to register for the shot. Govt says it is monitoring user experience but says no glitches found so far.
In an interview, Ram Sewak Sharma, chairman of Co-WIN panel, says the app has functions separate from Aarogya Setu and that data collection is minimal, not sensitive & encrypted.
The CoWIN app is not yet public, but has utilities for every level of user — from civil servants to public health system managers, vaccinators, and potential beneficiaries.
Less than a year before the First Constitutional Amendment, Patel wrote to Nehru about Supreme Court rulings that had 'knocked the bottom out' of press control laws.
IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.
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