Covid-19 vaccination drive swung into operation at various urban and rural centres of East Singhbhum district on Tuesday, as a lot of 4000 Covaxin shots reached here last night from Ranchi.

People especially those in the age group of 18 to 44 years flocked jab centres to get vaccinated.

Five centres including Rabindra Bhawan in Sakchi and Rajendra Vidyalaya School inoculated seekers through online slot booking while two other centres were meant for those above 45 years.

A total of 15 centres in various rural blocks of East Singhbhum provided the vaccine doses to 18 plus individuals while two centres were earmarked to vaccinated those 45 years and above. Two rural centres also offered walk-in vaccination to jab seekers.

Vaccination in the district resumed after five days. Sources in health department said that several centres in both urban and rural areas had to be closed due to short supply of vaccine doses.

District surveillance officer Sahir Pal said, “We are expecting more doses of both the vaccines from Ranchi today.”

Meanwhile, East Singhbhum district sprung a surprise with not a single case of Covid-19 being reported on Monday. In all 6,359 people underwent Covid tests on Monday.

“It is a welcome relief that no Covid positive cases or deaths were reported on Monday. We are continuing with RT-PCR, trunet and Rapid Antigen Tests at the same pace in various district,” said the district surveillance officer.

Earlier, on July 26 East Singhbhum had not reported a single positive case or death.

No positive cases were reported at The Tatanagar railway station also.

In all 2,102 passengers had to undergo Covid tests for incoming trains but none were found positive.

Data available from the health department revealed that the recovery rate in the district in 97.92 per cent while the death rate is 2.04 per cent.