Jharkhand on Monday vaccinated more than 1 lakh residents against Covid-19 for the third day in a row, adding impetus to the ongoing immunisation campaign that was hit recently by a crisis of vaccines.

In all, the state administered vaccines to 1,40,385 beneficiaries, provisional data released by the National Health Mission (NHM) highlighted. The

first dose of vaccine was administered to 1,09,085 residents, while at least 31,300 beneficiaries got their second jab. As many as 86,207 residents between 18 to 44 years got their first jab and 5,702 beneficiaries in this age bracket received their second jab on Monday.

Jharkhand had over 5.40 lakh doses of vaccines in stock, as per data shared by the health department on Monday evening. The state has so far received 93,02,030 Covishield and Covaxin doses from the Centre and private hospitals have separately procured Sputnik V. The state, as per government data, has vaccinated 88,89,147 residents so far.

The active caseload of Covid-19 dropped to 246 on Monday as the state reported at least 45 Covid recoveries against 37 fresh cases of infection. The state did not report any fresh casualties caused by the viral infection, which has claimed 5124 lives in Jharkhand so far.

At least 13 districts – West Singhbhum, Saraikela, Sahebganj, Palamu, Pakur, Lohardaga, Khunti, Hazaribagh, Godda, Giridih, East Singhhum, Dumka and Chatra – did not report fresh cases of Covid-19 on the day, while the active caseload dropped to zero in Pakur and West Singhbhum as the only patients in the two districts recovered, the NHM stated in its daily Covid-19 bulletin.

None of the 24 districts reported a double-digit-spike on Monday with Bokaro reporting the highest increase of nine cases. At least six recoveries against two cases brought the active caseload to 48, while the active caseload in East Singhbhum dropped to 16 as the district reported five recoveries against zero fresh cases. At least 27 people were battling the viral infection in Dhanbad by the end of Monday as two patients recovered there and one person was found infected on the day.

On Monday, the state tested swab samples of 54,215 residents and 0.06 per cent of them were found infected by SARS-CoV-2. Almost 3.47 lakh people have been infected by the deadly virus in Jharkhand so far and 98.45 per cent of them have recovered, while 1.47 per cent of patients could not survive.

The doubling rate of Covid cases jumped to 8210.12 days in Jharkhand on Monday against the national average of 756.05 days, while the growth rate in the state remained 0.01 per cent against the national average of 0.09 per cent, government data highlighted.