Kolkata: West Bengal state authorities has launched an app to make the reserving of vaccination slots simpler for individuals. Now individuals throughout the state beneath any municipality can enrol to get an appointment on the Covid-vaccination Centres close to their houses.
It was launched by State Minister for Well being and Household Welfare, Chandrima Bhattacharya this week.
The app makes use of WhatsApp as a communication platform. One has to depart a Whatsapp textual content on the quantity 8335999000. A return message will ask the particular person particulars like identify, age, gender, locality beneath which municipality. The particular person will probably be allotted a slot in a centre close to his or her house. They should attain the centre as per the allotted time, present the affirmation message to take the dose.
Debjani Chatterjee from Maldah (age: 48) tried reserving a slot for her second dose of Covishield at this time (June 18) and was profitable is securing an appointment for herself on June 27. She needed to share the small print of her picture ID proof in an effort to verify her slot.
Auhona Roy Chowdhury from Kolkata (age: 20) additionally tried reserving a slot for her first dose at this time however her appointment was delayed as a consequence of unavailability of slots. She acquired a reply that learn “1st dose Covid vaccination appointments isn’t obtainable,appointment reserving will begin from subsequent sunday onwards.”
The return messages from the platform point out beforehand that there are presently no vaccination slots obtainable within the districts of Hooghly, Howrah and Uttar Dinajpur. It has additionally been reported that there’s an unavailability of Covaxin slots because the previous few days and people involved are usually not with the ability to safe an appointment for themselves.