Jharkhand vaccinated more than 1.4 lakh residents against Covid-19 on Monday , taking the total count of citizens who have at least received one dose of vaccine closer to the 90 lakh mark. It administered vaccine jabs to 1,40,385 beneficiaries on the day, provisional data released by the Health Department highlighted.
According to the Health Department, the first dose of vaccine was administered to 1,09,085 residents, while at least 31,300 beneficiaries got their second jab on the day. As many as 86,207 residents in the age bracket of 18 years to 44 years got their first jab and 5,702 beneficiaries in this age bracket received their second jab on Monday.
Jharkhand had over 5.40 lakh doses of vaccines in stock, as per data shared by the National Health Mission (NHM) on Monday evening. The State has so far received 93,02,030 Covishield and Covaxin doses from the Centre and private hospitals have separately procured Sputnik V. The state, as per government data, has vaccinated 88,89,147 residents so far.
Meanwhile, the active caseload of Covid-19 dropped below 250 on Monday as the state reported at least 45 Covid recoveries against 37 fresh cases of infection. The state did not report any fresh casualties caused by the viral infection, which has claimed 5124 lives in Jharkhand so far. At least 246 people were battling the viral infection in the state by the end of Monday.
The active caseload dropped to zero in Pakur and West Singhbhum as the only patients in the two districts recovered, the NHM stated in its daily Covid-19 bulletin. As per the NHM bulletin, at least 13 districts – West Singhbhum, Saraikela, Sahebganj, Palamu, Pakur, Lohardaga, Khunti, Hazaribag, Godda, Giridih, East Singhhum, Dumka and Chatra – did not report fresh cases of Covid-19 on the day.
None of the 24 districts reported a double-digit-spike on the day with Bokaro reporting the highest spike of nine cases. At least six recoveries against two cases brought the active caseload to 48, while the active caseload in East Singhbhum dropped to 16 as the district reported five recoveries against zero fresh cases. At least 27 people were battling the viral infection in Dhanbad by the end of Monday as two patients recovered there and one person was found infected on the day.
The state on Monday tested swab samples of 54,215 residents and 0.06 per cent of them were found infected by SARS-CoV-2. Almost 3.47 lakh people have been infected by the deadly virus in Jharkhand so far and 98.45 per cent of them have recovered, while 1.47 per cent of patients could not survive.
