Jharkhand on Sunday managed to vaccinate less than 20,000 residents against Covid-19 and only 359 vaccination sites remained operational across the state owing to a shortage of vaccines, as per late-night provisional data released by the health department .

The state has at least 3,377 session sites for the immunisation campaign against Covid-19 and only about 10 per cent of those opened their doors on Sunday. The state may have to manage with less than 50,000 doses of vaccines in stock until fresh supplies arrive, officials said.

As per data shared by the National Health Mission (NHM), the state on Sunday administered the first dose of vaccine to 12,548 residents, while the second dose was administered to 5,563 beneficiaries. Over 12,000 beneficiaries who got jabbed on the day were younger than 45 years.

Jharkhand, as per government data, has received 76,54,340 doses of vaccines from the Centre so far and utilised 76,54,583 of them. The state had 49,690 doses of vaccines in stock by Sunday evening. The figure, officials said, may further drop as different centres make entries on the Co-Win portal till midnight. As per calculations done by the health department, the vaccines available in stock may last for half a day (0.6) only.

Meanwhile, the active caseload of Covid-19 continued to dip in Jharkhand as recoveries outnumbered fresh cases of infection on Sunday. As per a bulletin released by the NHM, at least 61 Covid patients recovered from the infection on the day against 49 people testing positive for Coronavirus, and the active caseload dropped to 411.

At least 10 districts – West Singhbhum, Saraikela, Pakur, Lohardaga, Godda, Giridih, Garhwa, Dumka, Deoghar and Chatra – did not report fresh Covid cases on the day, NHM data highlighted. None of the 24 districts in the state reported a double-digit-spike on Sunday. With eight cases, Hazaribag reported the highest spike among the districts.

At least 12 recoveries against two cases brought the active caseload in Ranchi down to 57, while East Singhbhum reported 12 recoveries against six cases and the active caseload there dropped to 59. The state did not report fresh Covid casualties on the day.

Jharkhand on Sunday tested swab samples of 38,868 residents and 0.12 per cent of them were found infected by the lethal virus, which has claimed at least 5117 lives in the state. So far, 3.46 lakh people have been infected by the virus in Jharkhand and 98.40 per cent of them have recovered, while 1.47 per cent of the patients have died.