Jharkhand on Sunday reported a significant drop in the active caseload of Covid-19 as recoveries outnumbered fresh cases by a huge margin, while the state managed to vaccinate hardly 42,000 residents against the disease despite sufficient stock of vaccines available with all the districts, government data highlighted.
The State on Sunday reported at least 41 Covid recoveries against only five fresh cases of infection and the count of active cases dropped to 177, a bulletin from National Health Mission (NHM) highlighted. As per the bulletin, at least 20 of 24 districts, including East Singhbhum and Dhanbad, did not report fresh cases of infection on the day.
The active caseload dropped to 85 in Ranchi as the district reported at least 20 Covid recoveries against only two fresh cases of infection, the NHM stated in its bulletin. Besides Ranchi, only Bokaro, Jamtara and West Singhbhum reported fresh cases of infection on the day.
Jharkhand on Sunday tested swab samples of 41,838 residents and 0.01 per cent of them were found infected by coronavirus. The State has so far reported over 3.47 lakh cases of Covid-19 and 98.47 per cent of the patients have recovered, while 1.47 per cent of patients could not survive. No fresh casualties were reported on the day in the state.
As per provisional vaccination figures released by the National Health Mission (NHM), the State administered the first dose of vaccine to 32,037 residents while the second jab was administered to hardly 10,635 beneficiaries. Nearly 30,000 of the beneficiaries who got vaccinated on the day fell in the age bracket of 18 years to 44 years.
Only around 700 session sites, including 10 private ones, were operational in Jharkhand on Sunday, while only 11 of them opened their doors for vaccine beneficiaries in Ranchi, where close to 3000 people were inoculated, data available on the Co-Win platform highlighted. As per Co-Win data, only four vaccination centres were operational in East Singhbhum and 38 in Dhanbad, where over 6,000 residents were vaccinated.
As per figures released by the health department on Sunday evening, the state had at least 5,54,270 doses of vaccine in stock before the session sites opened their doors for beneficiaries on the day. As per this data, there were 2,24,750 Covaxin doses and 3,29,520 Covishield doses available with the districts before the session sites opened on the day.
Jharkhand on Sunday distributed over 2.63 lakh more doses of Covishield vaccine among the 24 districts to further strengthen the ongoing immunisation drive against Covid-19, data released by the health department highlighted.