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After chaos at Covid-19 vaccination centres, govt says old slots valid

CoWIN portal's been reconfigured to reflect change in Covishield dose interval

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States have been advised to undertake awareness activities to inform the beneficiaries about this change.

Ruchika Chitravanshi New Delhi
The Centre on Sunday assured the people that no one, who had pre-booked their second jab of Covishield, would be turned away.  

This came after there was chaos at vaccination centres in Delhi on Saturday where people, who had completed over six weeks of the first shot and queued up to take their second jab, were being asked to leave.

Recently, the government had extended the gap of the two Covishield doses from 6-8 weeks to 12-16 weeks. The health ministry has instructed states not to turn away people or cancel the appointment of those who had booked their second appointment for