A man in Madhya Pradesh state’s Rajgarh district has alleged that he received a message on his mobile that his dead father had taken a second dose of the COVID vaccine on 3 December.
The case came to light on Saturday, after which state authorities blamed it on a computer glitch, in which “Purushottam Shakyawar (78) of Biaora town, who died in May, received a message on his mobile phone number that he was administered the second dose of the vaccine on 3 December,” Indian news agency Press Trust of India reported.
The 78-year-old man, Purushottam Shakyawar, who, according to the received the message, got his second jab, died on 24 May. According to his son, Shakyawar received his first dose on 8 April.
Earlier this week, a similar case was reported in the Indian state of Bihar where a data entry operator working at vaccine centre uploaded a list which said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, Congress President Sonia Gandhi, and actors Akshay Kumar and Priyanka Chopra - got vaccinated in one of Bihar's state districts.
Later, district officials took note of the matter and filed a police complaint regarding the incident.
Recently, Federal Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya had said that 85 percent of India’s adult population has received the first COVID-19 vaccine dose while 50 percent was fully jabbed.