[Eddy]

Is there a format for the medical certificate required for people with comorbidities?

[kaushikr]

A question for members residing in Bangalore - Has anyone managed to get an appointment using the CO-WIN website. Whenever I look for a slot for my Parents, there seem to be no available appointments in March, all across the city.

Is it better to call up the Hospital directly and visit them.

Any suggestion or tips would be welcome.

[itwasntme]

Originally Posted by kaushikr

A question for members residing in Bangalore - Has anyone managed to get an appointment using the CO-WIN website. Whenever I look for a slot for my Parents, there seem to be no available appointments in March, all across the city.

Is it better to call up the Hospital directly and visit them.

All pre-booked slots are supposedly full. Try walk-in as 40% slots are meant to be reserved for this BUT most hospitals are refusing as they are gearing up to cope.

[comfortablynumb]

Originally Posted by Eddy

Is there a format for the medical certificate required for people with comorbidities?

Check post no 6 on page 1 of this thread.

[hserus]

Originally Posted by itwasntme

All pre-booked slots are supposedly full. Try walk-in as 40% slots are meant to be reserved for this BUT most hospitals are refusing as they are gearing up to cope.

More hospitals are being added and slots should open up. For now dont search for a specific pin code, search for the entire city and you should find slots even if the clinic or hospital is about an hour away.

https://www.livemint.com/news/india/...695766609.html

[cnu]

Originally Posted by Eddy

Is there a format for the medical certificate required for people with comorbidities?

Here https://www.mohfw.gov.in/pdf/GuidancedocCOWIN2.pdf

See page 10.

[Osteon206]

Hello everybody. Just wanted to share my vaccination experience. I got the first shot (Covishield) on 5th February. The second dose is due on 5th March. I didn't have any major adverse effect except for left shoulder pain which was a little troublesome during surgeries for about 3 days. I'm attributing the possibility of lower side effects to having COVID in September 2020 (was Hospitalized and recieved Remdesivir). My colleagues had other side effects - fever, generalized body ache; but none of them so far tested positive post vaccination.

[hserus]

This just in - Dolly Parton was vaccinated (and she's one of the funders of Moderna so she got a shot of that), and rewrote her famous song for it.

https://twitter.com/DollyParton/stat...852323328?s=20

[Thad E Ginathom]

After some faffing around seeing no available slots anywhere, I suddenly saw availability at my nearest centre, an Apollo hospital, today!. Booked "afternoon" Well, ok... I'll go after noon! Walking distance. Maybe 20 minutes.

The cowin site seemed to function fairly well. Maybe it wasn't properly tested for day one, but they must have a team fully working on it.

[k_ajay]

Anyone trying from Bangalore East, tried to register on the CoWIN portal and unable to find any appointment slots available, until March 30? Across any centre?

Also strange to me that pincode 560037 won't appear under Bangalore Urban > Bangalore East in the portal but BBMP > East or BBMP > Mahadevapura (which are also right, though).

If anyone from 560037 was able to book today, vaccination slot for in or after March 2021, appreciate some info on how you could. Thanks!

Also, is anyone aware when slots for April and beyond, may open up?

Originally Posted by kaushikr

A question for members residing in Bangalore - Has anyone managed to get an appointment using the CO-WIN website. Whenever I look for a slot for my Parents, there seem to be no available appointments in March, all across the city.

I just saw your post. Same experience.

[saikarthik]

I struggled to find a slot for my father in Bangalore. After multiple search sessions and frequent log outs, finally found a slot for 30th March in Apollo hospital 20 kms away from home.

It seems strange that there are a lot of vaccination centers and but no slots available for a month!

Question - Is it possible to cancel the booked slot or do another booking before cancelling if we get another nearest center or a early slot?

[hserus]

Originally Posted by k_ajay

Anyone trying from Bangalore East, tried to register on the CoWIN portal and unable to find any appointment slots available, until March 30? Across any centre?.

As I said please search for all of Bangalore and don't use pincodes. Many of the hospitals have been entered with the wrong address, and you might have to find a hospital that is an hour or so away in order to get a slot. Never mind, LTD

[AtheK]

Got my parents vaccinated, it was a walk in at MVJ hospital, Hoskote. It was super smooth and we were done in 90 mins, which included keeping them in observation for close to 40 mins. People in and around Whitefield area can go there.

The vaccine administered was Covidshield.

[hserus]

Originally Posted by AtheK

Got my parents vaccinated, it was a walk in at MVJ hospital, Hoskote. It was super smooth and we were done in 90 mins, which included keeping them in observation for close to 40 mins. People in and around Whitefield area can go there.

The vaccine administered was Covidshield.

Covaxin seems to be deeply unpopular among the hospitals. Nobody is administering it and all the acquired doses are going waste. https://www.thehindubusinessline.com...le33976702.ece

[Thad E Ginathom]

Originally Posted by Thad E Ginathom

After some faffing around seeing no available slots anywhere, I suddenly saw availability at my nearest centre, an Apollo hospital, today!. Booked "afternoon" Well, ok... I'll go after noon! Walking distance. Maybe 20 minutes.

Got here about 1pm. Had to wait some short time for computer glitch, then they had to check they could vaccinate a foreigner. Lol, as if so many of my brown friends didn't have USA passports! Anyway, all got sorted and there was zero wait for quick health check and vaccination.

Now supposed to be sitting for half an hour. Don't think anyone would notice if I didn't!

For information, I am at Apollo, Perungudi.

I understood from news sources that private hospitals were only being given Covishield.