Very few registrations in Kurnool baffle officials

Three months ago those who waited with a bated breath for the then perceived life-saving vaccine for COVID-19 to arrive so that they could take a jab and stir out of the house without any restrictions, are in no mood to come to the numerous vaccination centres opened in Kurnool and Anantapur districts. While 59 vaccination centres have been opened in Kurnool district in the private ‘Arogyasri network’ hospitals in addition to the 67 government health care facilities where vaccination had taken place in the first phase, those above 60 years of age and people with comorbidities above the age of 45 showed very little interest in either registering online on the COWIN or coming directly to the centre. The response has been only a trickle with just a couple of hundred people turning up against an expectation of people coming in thousands.