Jharkhand on Tuesday vaccinated over 1.6 lakh residents against Covid-19 as over 1400 session sites, including 30 private ones, remained operational across the State, figures released by the health department highlighted.
As per provisional data shared by the National Health Mission (NHM), the State on Tuesday administered the first dose of vaccine to at least 1,26,901 residents, while the second jab was administered to as many as 35,939 beneficiaries. More than 1.21 lakh beneficiaries inoculated on the day fell in the age bracket of 18 years to 44 years, NHM data further stated.
Data on Co-Win portal reflected that at least 84 session sites opened their doors for beneficiaries in Ranchi on the day and around 20,000 residents were vaccinated here. East Singbhum, on the other hand, vaccinated over 22,000 residents as at least 89 session sites remained operational there, while 14,000-odd residents were inoculated across the 70 operational session sites in Dhanbad, as per Co-Win data.
As per figures shared by the NHM on Tuesday evening, the State has so far vaccinated 1,18,15,215 residents and more than 23 lakh of them have received both the doses of vaccines against Covid-19. Jharkhand has so far received over 1.24 crore Covishield and Covaxin doses from the Centre for the mass immunisation drive and had more than 7.32 lakh doses in stock before the vaccination centres opened their doors on Tuesday, NHM data highlighted.
Meanwhile, at least 19 Covid recoveries against seven fresh cases of infection brought the active caseload of Covid-19 further down to 153 in the state on Tuesday, a separate bulletin from NHM stated.
While 20 of 24 districts did not report fresh cases of coronavirus infection, East Singhbhum reported the highest spike of three cases against two recoveries.
Ranchi witnessed a significant drop in active cases for the third day in a row as at least 10 patients recovered from Covid-19 here while only two fresh cases surfaced in the district. As per NHM data, Tuesday’s findings brought the active caseload of Covid-19 in Ranchi down to 73. Ranchi, however, still had the highest count of active cases among the districts in Jharkhand.
Jharkhand did not report fresh cases of Covid-induced mucormycosis on Tuesday and the black fungus toll also remained 31.
As per data compiled by the Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP), the State has so far reported 167 black fungus cases and 21 of them were still active.