CM of Maharashtra sought permission from the Center to create a separate app for Covid-19 vaccination

Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has sought the Centre’s permission for a separate app for COVID-19 vaccination after he received complaints of frequent glitches in CoWIN platform.

On Friday, the Union Health Ministry introduced a new 4-digit security code feature in the CoWIN portal in view of complaints by several users that they received notification of vaccination dose administered to them irrespective of missing their appointments made on CoWIN.

The '4 digit security code' to minimize errors for online bookings/appointments operational from May 8, reported ANI.

The new feature was added after it came to notice that some citizens, who had booked their appointment for COVID-19 vaccination through the CoWIN portal but did not actually go for vaccination on the scheduled date, received SMS notification saying that a vaccine dose has been administered to them.

Maharashtra is among the ten states reporting 71.81 per cent of new COVID-19 cases, according to the Union Health Ministry on Friday.

Karnataka, Bihar, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan are also among these 10 states.

Maharashtra reported 54,022 new Covid cases, 37,386 recoveries and 898 deaths in the last 24 hours, as per the State health department. Out of this, Mumbai reports 3,039 new Covid cases, 4,052 recoveries, and 71 deaths in the last 24 hours.

Earlier today, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on COVID-19 situation in state.