New Delhi: The Co-WIN site, which is used for the COVID-19 immunisation process, does not allow multiple registrations on a single Aadhaar ID, clarified the Union Health Ministry on Friday.The clarification comes after an 84-year-old man in Bihar's Madhepura area claimed to have received 11 COVID-19 vaccination doses.

"According to Co-WIN records, only one person named Brahmdeo Mandal, age 85, has been vaccinated, that too with a unique Aadhaar number Co-WIN does not allow the use of the same ID including Aadhaar for multiple beneficiaries," Vikas Sheel, Additional Secretary and Mission Director of the National Health Mission, wrote on Twitter today.

Mandal, who claims to have kept track of the dates and times of all 11 jabs, said he fired his first shot on February 13, 2021, at Puraini PHC. He claimed to have had the vaccine nine times by September 24 and his most recent dose on January 4 of this year.

"I received my third jab on May 19, my fourth on June 16, my fifth on July 24, and my tenth jab on July 24 from SDH Kehalgaon. So far, I've taken 11 doses of COVID-19 vaccination "Mandal claimed that he had not been sick since he began getting immunised. In addition, the state health department has launched an investigation into the situation.

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