At least 110 Covid-19 recoveries against 55 fresh cases brought the active caseload in Jharkhand below 500 on Thursday, while one more casualty reported in East Singhbhum took the Covid toll in the state to 5,119, figures released by the health department highlighted.

As many as 11 districts – West Singhbhum, Saraikela, Ramgarh, Palamu, Pakur, Lohardaga, Jamtara, Godda, Giridih, Garhwa, Dumka and Deoghar – did not report fresh Covid cases on the day, a bulletin from the National Health Mission (NHM) stated. At least 476 Jharkhand residents were battling the viral infection by the end of Thursday.

Besides reporting the only Covid casualty on the day, East Singhbhum also reported 15 cases of infection, the highest among the 24 districts. The active caseload in the district also rose to 66 on Thursday as only 13 patients recovered from Covid-19 there. The active caseload also jumped to 34 in Bokaro, which reported 12 Covid cases against only six recoveries.

Barring Bokaro and East Singhbhum, all the remaining 22 districts reported a drop in the active caseload on the day. At least eight Covid recoveries against six fresh cases brought the active caseload in Ranchi down to 70, still the highest among the districts in Jharkhand.

The state on Thursday tested swab samples of 47,347 residents and 0.11 per cent of them were found infected. As per government data, over 3.46 lakh people have tested positive for Covid-19 in the state so far and 98.38 per cent of them have recovered, while 1.47 per cent of the patients could not survive.

The vaccination campaign against Covid-19 was hit by a shortage of doses for the second day in a row on Thursday as the state managed to vaccinate only about 20,000 residents on the day. As per provisional data released by the NHM, as many as 14,541 residents received the first dose of the vaccine on Thursday, while the second jab was administered to 6314 beneficiaries.

The state has on average vaccinated over one lakh residents daily since fresh supplies arrived on July 2, but the figure dropped to around 60,000 on Wednesday. More than half of those who received vaccines against Covid-19 on Thursday were below the age of 45 years, government data highlighted.

The state, however, is expecting delivery of 1 lakh Covaxin doses on Friday and 2.5 lakh doses of Covishield on July 15, officials said.