COVID-19 vaccination certificates can now be obtained via WhatsApp within seconds

India’s cumulative vaccine coverage stood at over 50.62 crore, i.e., 50,62,18,296 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered.

On August 8, Union Health Minister Mansukh L.  Mandaviya informed that COVID-19 vaccination certificates can be obtained by vaccinated individuals via WhatsApp within seconds.

Office of Mansukh Mandaviya tweeted, “Revolutionising common man’s life using technology!” He further added the steps required to receive the certificate.

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Congress leader and MP Shashi Tharoor referred to the process as “simple and fast.”

However, several individuals who tried to follow the steps ended up receiving incorrect results. Some of them said that the certificate had mentioned a single date for both doses. Others complained that they were informed that they were unvaccinated even when they were fully vaccinated.

As per a provisional report issued by the Union Health Ministry on Saturday evening, India’s cumulative vaccine coverage stood at over 50.62 crore, i.e., 50,62,18,296 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered.

On August 7, around 27,55,447 COVID-19 vaccine doses were administered as the first dose and 5,08,616 were given as the second shot to the people aged 18-44 years.

As of now, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, and Uttar Pradesh have administered more than a crore cumulative COVID-19 vaccine shots in the age group of 18-44 years.

More than 10 lakh beneficiaries have been inoculated in the age group of 18-44 years for the first dose in Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Chattisgarh, Delhi, Haryana, Jharkhand, Kerala, Telangana, Himachal Pradesh, Odisha, Punjab, Uttarakhand, and West Bengal.