Jharkhand on Tuesday vaccinated over 1.4 lakh residents against Covid-19 after the arrival of fresh doses from the Centre allowed the state to intensify the immunisation programme, health officials said, blaming the lack of vaccines in stock for the unprecedented drop in vaccination figures in the past couple of days.

As per provisional data shared by the National Health Mission (NHM) on Tuesday evening, the state administered the first dose of vaccines against Covid-19 to 86,005 residents, while the second jab was administered to 56,001 beneficiaries. Almost 75,000 residents in the age bracket of 18 years to 44 years were inoculated on the day.

According to data available on the Co-Win platform, at least 1,091 vaccination sites were operational in the state on Tuesday, 82 of them in Ranchi. The number of vaccination centres that administered vaccines was, however, more than what Co-Win dashboard showed, officials said. Less than 500 vaccination centres opened their gates for beneficiaries on Saturday, Sunday and Monday.

Elsewhere, a resident of Bokaro died of Covid-19 on Tuesday, taking the Covid toll in the state to 5,120, as per NHM data. The state reported 70 Covid recoveries against 40 fresh cases and the active caseload in Jharkhand dropped to 347 on Tuesday.

At least 13 districts – Simdega, Saraikela, Pakur, Lohardaga, Latehar, Khunti, Jamtara, Godda, Giridih, Garhwa, Dumka, Deoghar and Chatra – did not report fresh Covid-19 cases on the day, while none of the 24 districts reported a double-digit-spike in cases.

Ten recoveries against seven cases brought the active caseload in Ranchi down to 50, while 10 recoveries against four cases brought the active caseload in East Singhbhum to 54, NHM stated in its bulletin. Bokaro reported seven cases against five recoveries and Dhanbad reported four cases against zero recoveries on the day.

The state on Tuesday tested swab samples of 58,266 residents and 0.6 per cent of them were found infected by the novel coronavirus. So far, over 3.46 lakh people have been infected by the deadly virus in Jharkhand and 98.42 per cent of them have recovered, while 1.47 of patients could not survive.

No fresh cases of Covid-induced mucormycosis were reported in the state on Tuesday after three confirmed cases and three fatalities in hardly 48 hours triggered panic among residents and health officials. As per data compiled by the Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP), the state has reported 98 confirmed and 58 suspected cases of the fungal infection so far and 29 patients have died, while 78 have recovered.