Jharkhand on Tuesday administered the first dose of Covishield vaccine to 4387 beneficiaries, while the second dose was administered to 1081 people, figures compiled by the National Health Mission (NHM) highlighted.

The state achieved 29 per cent of its vaccination target for the first dose and 49 per cent of target for the second dose on the day. As per government data, so far, around 74 per cent of registered beneficiaries have been inoculated for the first time, while 83 per cent of the registered beneficiaries have been administered the second dose of Covishield vaccine.

As per a report shared by the NHM on Tuesday, as many as 290133 healthcare workers and frontline workers have been administered the first dose of the vaccine in Jharkhand since January 16. As many as 15,265 people in the state have received the second dose as well.

However, more than 1 lakh beneficiaries have given the first dose of the vaccine a miss. Also, around 3000 of those who took the first jab were yet to take the second jab despite being called at the vaccination centre several times.

On Tuesday, Ranchi achieved 84 per cent of its vaccination target – the highest among all districts in Jharkhand. Ranchi, however, has one of the lowest vaccination rate of 65 per cent in Jharkhand since the beginning of the immunization programme. As many as 655 of the 782 registered beneficiaries were inoculated here on the day. Chatra achieved the lowest vaccination rate of 5 per cent on Tuesday as only 49 of over 1100 beneficiaries turned up at the vaccination centre there.

Sahebganj and Ramgarh achieved 100 per cent of their target for administering the second dose of the vaccine. At least 93 people were administered the second dose of vaccine in Ramgarh, while Sahebganj administered the jab to 43 people.

Meanwhile, as many as 50 people were found infected by the Covid-19 virus in Jharkhand on Tuesday, while 51 Covid patients recovered, stated a bulletin from NHM. Ranchi accounted for 33 of the 50 cases and 29 of the 51 recoveries, triggering a spike in active cases here.

As per the NHM report, of the 447 active cases in Jharkhand, at least 261 were from Ranchi. All the remaining 23 districts had less than 100 active cases of Covid-19 infection.

As per government data, as many as 119687 people have been infected by the virus in Jharkhand so far and 98.71 per cent of them have recovered. The growth rate of the virus in Jharkhand was 0.03 per cent against the national average of 0.10 per cent.