Jharkhand on Monday vaccinated around 1.4 lakh residents against Covid-19 as more than 1,300 session sites, including at least 23 private facilities, remained operational throughout the day, figures released by the health department highlighted.

As per provisional vaccination data compiled by the National Health Mission (NHM), the state on Monday administered the first dose of vaccines to as many as 1,05,749 residents, while the second jab was administered to at least 32,372 beneficiaries. More than 1 lakh residents inoculated were between 18 and 44 years.

Figures available on the Co-Win platform highlighted that at least 1,349 session sites remained operational across the state with each site administering 100 doses on an average. At least 77 session sites opened their doors for eligible vaccine beneficiaries in Ranchi and administered jabs to almost 17,000 residents. In East Singhbhum, around 10,000 residents were inoculated at 56 session sites across the district, while 51 session sites administered jabs to about 9,000 residents in Dhanbad, as per the Co-Win dashboard at 10pm.

As per data shared by the health department on Monday evening, the state has so far administered the first dose of vaccines to over 88 lakh residents and more than 21 lakh of them have also received the second dose. While the government did not release details of vaccine doses available in stock, an official involved in the immunisation drive said that around 5 lakh doses, mostly Covishield, were available in the state by Monday night.

The active caseload of Covid-19 again witnessed a spike on Monday as fresh cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection outnumbered Covid recoveries. As per NHM, at least 35 fresh cases of infection against only 13 recoveries took the active caseload of Covid-19 to 236 on Monday in Jharkhand.

The number of Covid patients in Ranchi shot up to 105 as the district reported 11 fresh cases against seven recoveries, while the active caseload in Dhanbad reached 29 as three people were found infected there and one patient recovered.

Jamtara, which had zero active cases of Covid-19 until Monday, reported at least 11 fresh cases of infection, which took the active caseload there to 11. At least nine Jharkhand districts, including Bokaro, Hazaribag, East Singhbhum and Dumka, did not report fresh Covid cases on Monday.

The state on Monday tested swab samples of 40,217 residents and 0.08 per cent of them were found infected by coronavirus. The state did not report fresh Covid casualties on the day. So far, Jharkhand has reported over 3.47 lakh Covid cases and 98.45 per cent of the patients have recovered, while 1.47 per cent of patients could not survive, highlights government data.

Jharkhand did not report fresh cases of Covid-induced mucormycosis for the third day in a row on Monday and the black fungus toll also remained 31. So far, the state has reported 106 confirmed and 61 suspected cases of black fungus, as per data compiled by the Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP). At least 115 people have recovered from the fungal infection in the state.