Jharkhand on Tuesday vaccinated over 75,000 residents, including around 55,000 below 45, against Covid-19, figures released by the health department highlighted.
As per provisional data shared by the National Health Mission (NHM), the state on Tuesday administered the first dose of vaccine to 55,920 residents, while the second jab was administered to 20,861 beneficiaries.
The state distributed 2,64,200 doses of Covishield vaccine among all 24 districts to continue the immunisation campaign against Covid-19 in the state. As per data shared by the health department, Ranchi got the highest share of 20,000 vaccine doses from the lot, while East Singhbhum and Dhanbad received 17,000 doses each. Bokaro and Palamau were given 13,500 doses each.
With the fresh arrival of vaccines, the state now has about 5 lakh vaccine doses in stock, enough to carry out aggressive vaccination for the next five days at least, officials said.
As per records shared by the National Health Mission (NHM) on Tuesday evening, the state has so far received 1,02,66,910 vaccine doses from the Centre. The state has administered 1,03,89,481 vaccine doses, including Sputnik V separately procured by private hospitals, to residents in Jharkhand.
Meanwhile, the active caseload of Covid-19 jumped to 208 on the day as the state reported 34 cases against 28 recoveries, an NHM bulletin highlighted. Ranchi reported the highest spike of 17 cases against eight recoveries, which took the active caseload here to 60. As per NHM data, all other districts reported a single-digit-spike in Covid cases.
At least 14 of 24 districts in Jharkhand did not report fresh cases of Covid-19 on Tuesday. The state on Tuesday tested swab samples of 51,844 and 0.06 per cent of them were found infected.
Jharkhand did not report fresh cases of Covid-induced Mucormycosis on Tuesday. The state has so far reported 106 confirmed and 60 suspected cases of Black fungus. At least 31 state residents have died of the fungal infection so far, as per Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP).
