Jharkhand achieved 52 per cent of its vaccination target on Friday as 8,759 of the 16,879 people registered for the immunisation received Covishield shots, data updated by the National Health Mission said.

Palamau achieved 80 per cent of its vaccination target on the day – the highest among all the 24 districts, with 796 out of 1,000 people getting vaccinated.

Despite failing to achieve even 50 per cent of its vaccination target on the day, Ranchi administration administered the vaccine shots to 919 people, the highest among all the districts in Jharkhand. Ranchi, however, achieved only 42 per cent of its target as at least 2200 people were registered for vaccination at the 16 centres here on Friday. Only one case of Adverse Effect Following Vaccination (AEFI) was reported on the day. The person who suffered from adverse effects was a resident of Ranchi.

As of Friday, 33,069 people have received the jabs, with 2,988 of them being from Ranchi. However, Jharkhand has achieved only 57 per cent of its target so far as at least 24,455 people registered for vaccination did not turn up at the vaccination centres, reveals government data.

The active cases of Covid-19 infection saw a downward trend on the day, but Ranchi continued to report more than 70 per cent of the state's cases.

Of the 45 people found infected across the state, 33 were from Ranchi. However, recoveries outnumbered fresh cases of Covid-19 on the day as the state reported 86 recoveries and 54 of them were reported in Ranchi alone. Friday’s findings brought the number of active cases down to 628 in Jharkhand.

Meanwhile, a Covid-19 patient in Bokaro died during treatment, taking the death toll in the state to 1,070, a bulletin released by NHM stated. Jharkhand’s Covid mortality rate, however, was 0.90 per cent against the national average of 1.40 per cent, the bulletin further stated.