Jharkhand on Thursday vaccinated nearly 1 lakh residents against Covid-19 as at least 1,032 session sites remained operation across the state for inoculation of eligible beneficiaries, figures released by the health department highlighted.

As per provisional data compiled by the National Health Mission (NHM), Jharkhand administered the first dose of vaccine to as many as 69,147 residents, while the second jab was administered to at least 28,470 beneficiaries. As many as 54,276 residents in the age bracket of 18 years to 44 years received their first jab on the day, while 17,848 beneficiaries from the same age group received their second jab.

According to data available on Co-Win portal, at least 47 session sites were operational in Ranchi on the day and more than 7,000 residents got vaccinated here. As many as 35 session sites inoculated more than 6700 residents in East Singhbhum on the day, while almost 12000 beneficiaries got their jabs across 62 vaccination centres open in Dhanbad.

As per government data, the state has so far received over 1 crore Covishield and Covaxin doses from the Centre. Data shared by the health department on Thursday evening indicated that the state had about 4 lakh vaccine doses in stock, enough to last about four days if the immunisation campaign runs at a decent pace.

Fresh Covid cases outnumbered recoveries on Thursday, causing a spike in the active caseload in Jharkhand. The state, as per a bulletin from NHM, reported 44 cases against 29 recoveries, which took the active caseload in the state to 211.

Ranchi alone reported 28 cases against only three recoveries and the active caseload here jumped to 87, the highest in the state. While none of the remaining 23 districts reported a double-digit-spike, East Singhbhum reported five cases against four recoveries and Dhanbad reported seven cases against one recovery.

Another suspected case of Covid-induced mucormycosis also occurred in Ranchi on Thursday, taking the total count of suspected cases of black fungus in the district to 24 and that in Jharkhand to 61, figures compiled by the Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP) highlighted. The state has so far reported 106 confirmed cases of mucormycosis and 31 people have died of the fungal infection.