The immunisation campaign against Covid-19 in Jharkhand witnessed a slight drop in momentum on Wednesday as the State managed to inoculate about 60,000 residents on the day after achieving daily vaccination numbers of over 1 lakh earlier this week, figures released by the National Health Mission (NHM) highlighted.
As per provisional data released by the health department, at least 48,746 Jharkhand residents were administered the first dose of vaccine on the day, while 12,271 beneficiaries go their second jab. As many as 39,309 residents in the age bracket of 18 to 44 years received their first jab, while 2,716 residents from the same age bracket got their second dose on the day, the health department stated in its provisional vaccination report.
Jharkhand reported another Covid death on Wednesday, which took the toll in the state to 5126, a separate bulletin from NHM highlighted. The fresh casualty on Wednesday occurred in East Singhbhum, which has reported 1042 Covid fatalities so far, the second highest among the 24 districts in Jharkhand.
The active caseload of Covid-19 in the state, however, dropped to 237 on the day as at least 36 patients recovered while 27 people were found infected in the state. As per NHM data, Bokaro reported the highest spike of six cases on the day, and the active caseload there also rose to 21 as only five patients recovered from the infection.
The state on Wednesday tested swab samples of 58,148 residents and 0.04 per cent of them were found infected by Coronavirus. At least 10 districts – West Singhbhum, Simdega, Saraikela, Palamu, Pakur, Jamtara, Gumla, Garhwa, Dumka and Chatra – did not report fresh Covid cases on Wednesday.
At least seven recoveries against four cases brought the active caseload in Ranchi down to 41, while two recoveries against one case brought the active caseload in East Singhbhum down to 13. Over 3.47 lakh people have been infected by the deadly virus in Jharkhand so far and 98.45 per cent of the patients recovered, while 1.47 per cent could not survive.
The state on Wednesday also received the schedule for vaccine supply from the Centre in the month of August. According to the schedule, Jharkhand will receive 2,74,480 Covishield doses on August 7 and 78,930 Covaxin doses on August 8. On August 11, August 14 and August 15, the state will receive 2,64,200, 2,74,480 and 2,64,200 doses of Covishield respectively.