The daily vaccination number against Covid-19 in Jharkhand reached above 1.41 lakh the first day of October on Friday as the State managed to administer vaccine jabs to about 1,41, 877 residents on the day, figures compiled by the health department highlighted.
As per provisional data released by the National Health Mission (NHM), the state on Friday administered the first dose of vaccine against Covid-19 to as many as 79,489 residents, while the second jab was administered to at least 62,388 beneficiaries. About 1,05,455 residents inoculated on the day fell in the age bracket of 18 years to 44 years.
Ranchi and East Singhbhum vaccinated 16,208 and 15,213 odd residents respectively on the day, while Dhanbad managed to administer vaccine doses to hardly 16,801 beneficiaries.
According to a press communique from the health department, at least 1.76 crore residents in Jharkhand have received at least one dose of vaccine against Covid-19 and more than 40 lakh of them have also received the booster dose.
Meanwhile, at least 12 fresh cases of coronavirus infection against eight Covid recoveries took the active caseload of Covid-19 in the state to 87, a separate bulletin from NHM stated. While Dhanbad, Khunti and East Singhbhum reported two Covid cases each, West Singhbhum reported one fresh case of Covid-19, NHM data highlighted. The active caseload remained 49 in Ranchi and 8 in East Singhbhum.
At least 19 of 24 districts in Jharkhand did not have active cases of Covid-19 by the end of Friday, and Ranchi alone accounted for more than 60 per cent of the state’s active cases.
Jharkhand on Friday tested swab samples of at least 53, 682residents and 0.01 per cent of them were found infected by SARS-CoV-2 virus. The State has so far reported more than 3.48 lakh Covid cases and 98.50 per cent of the patients have recovered, while 1.47 per cent of patients could not survive.