Jharkhand on Tuesday logged its highest- ever single-day anti-Covid vaccination figure by administering doses to over 1.80 lakh residents as almost 1,500 session sites remained operational across the state, figures compiled by the health department highlighted.

As per provisional data released by the National Health Mission (NHM), the state administered the first dose of vaccine to as many as 1,39,310 residents, while the second jab was administered to at least 41,922 beneficiaries on Tuesday. More than 1.25 lakh beneficiaries were between 18 and 44 years.

The state has so far administered the first dose to almost 1.02 crore residents and around 26 lakh of them have also received the second booster dose.

Data available on the Co-Win portal reflected that about 25,000 residents were vaccinated in Ranchi alone on Tuesday as more than 80 session sites remained operational on Tuesday. More than 25,000 beneficiaries were inoculated in East Singhbhum, where at least 116 session sites opened their doors, while Dhanbad vaccinated at least 16,000 residents at 81 session sites.

As per details shared by NHM, the state had at least 6.85 lakh doses of vaccines in stock before the session sites opened their doors on Tuesday morning. Over 4.47 lakh Covishield doses and 2.38 lakh Covaxin doses were available in stock in the state.

While the vaccination numbers in Jharkhand continued to rise, the active caseload of Covid-19 dropped further down to 130 on Tuesday as the state reported at least 20 Covid recoveries against a dozen fresh cases of coronavirus infection, a separate NHM bulletin said.

As per this bulletin, at least 10 recoveries against two fresh cases brought the active caseload in Ranchi down to 72, while the count of active cases dropped to 13 in Dhanbad as the district reported two recoveries against one fresh case of infection. East Singhbhum and 15 other districts in the state did not report fresh cases of Covid-19 on the day, NHM data highlighted.

The state on Tuesday tested swab samples of at least 69,856 residents and 0.01 per cent of them were found infected by the deadly virus. The state has so far reported over 3.47 lakh Covid cases and 98.48 per cent of the patients have recovered, while 1.47 per cent of them could not survive.