NEW DELHI: An enthusiastic response greeted the opening of online registrations for Covid-19 vaccination for those above 18 on Wednesday with the 
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 platform recording over 1.23 crore registrations even though scheduling of appointments for May 1 onwards is not possible as yet.
Of the online registrations, 90% users registered after 4pm, when the portal began accepting 18-plus beneficiaries, a senior official said.

The exact numbers of new beneficiaries would be a dynamic figure, officials said. In the first three hours (4-7pm), 383 million API hits, initially as high as 2.7 million hits per minute, were recorded. As many as 1.45 crore text messages were successfully delivered, the health ministry said.
Millions logged in yesterday hoping to register and schedule an appointment for vaccination. Social media is filled with posts of disappointment for being unable to set up a date for the jab. We only hope that the scheduling is enabled at the earliest. The vaccination process must be accelerated to control the outbreak.