State may have to put Covid-19 immunisation drive on hold in many centres from Wednesday as it stares at a shortage of vaccines, health officials said on Tuesday, adding the next supply of vaccines is likely to reach Jharkhand on July 2 and the vaccination centres utilised almost the entire stock available by the end of Tuesday.

The State administered the first dose of vaccine to 36,342 residents and the second dose to 10,724 residents, the National Health Mission (NHM) stated in a report. As per data with the health department, Jharkhand was left with only 82,652 doses before the vaccination centres opened their gates on Tuesday. The State is left with around 35,000 doses of vaccines, which may get used on Wednesday itself, health officials said.

“The vaccine doses left in our stock will be used tomorrow (Wednesday). We will resume vaccination of state residents as soon as the vaccine supplies reach us,” said a senior health official spearheading the Covid-19 vaccination drive in Jharkhand.

Meanwhile, the active caseload of Covid-19 dropped below the 1,000-mark in the state on Tuesday as at least 148 Covid patients recovered while 94 fresh cases of infection surfaced across the State on the day, the NHM stated in a separate bulletin.

As per NHM data, the State reported two Covid casualties, one each in Dhanbad and Bokaro, which took the Covid toll to 5,113 on Tuesday. With 20 cases, East Singhbhum was the only district to report a double-digit-spike on Tuesday. The district also reported 21 recoveries, which brought the active caseload there down to 108.

Ranchi reported a spike of three cases against 45 recoveries. The active caseload in Ranchi, the worst-affected district in terms of caseload and casualties, dropped to 252 — the highest in the state. Pakur did not report fresh cases of Covid-19 on the day. As per Government records, the state on Tuesday tested swab samples of 55,254 residents and around 0.17 per cent of them were found infected by SARS-CoV-2. So far, over 3.45 lakh people have been affected by Covid-19 in the state and 98.24 per cent of them have recovered, while 1.47 per cent of the patients could not survive.

The doubling rate of cases further rose to 2,741.43 days in Jharkhand on Tuesday against the national average of 625.87 days, while the growth rate remained 0.03 per cent against the national growth rate of 0.11 per cent.