Lack of knowledge on how to get registered on Co Win platform as well as lack of knowledge on enrolment procedure threatens to impact the world's largest vaccination eligible Indians with Covid vaccines. Echoing the points reaised by the Supreme Court on the existence of Digital Divide as a dampener, a boston consulting group survey released on monday showed, 63% in rural areas and 43% in smaller towns didn't know how to register on the Co Win app for vaccination 60% of rural residents and 40% of those in smaller towns did not even know how to enrol. But the good news is that Indians are slowly shedding vaccine hesitancy. The pandemic's second wave which spread outside of bigger cities into smaller town and villages and its resultant impact on life and livelihood has made more Indians, specifically in smaller towns and rural areas, shed their reluctance over Covid vaccination. As many as 78% of Indians in large towns were "extremely willing to take vaccines" as of May over 62% in March Boston Consulting Group's Covid-19 Consumer Sentiment Survey said. And 74% Indians in smaller towns answered in the affirmative to the question "can you tell us as of today would you be willing to take the Covid-19 vaccine if it was made available to you" against just 30% in March and 63% were willing adopters of the Covid vaccine in May in rural India as against 41% in march. Among those who had not taken the vaccine despite being available, issues with registration on Cowin were the main reasons. Two thirds of all Indians in big towns faced issues with the app, with non availability of vaccination slots and fear of crowds at the centre. While 55% in smaller towns and 53% in rural areas had issues with the technology behind seeking slots for vaccination.
