The inoculation drive was partially suspended on Saturday and Sunday as the vaccine stock had run dry on Friday evening. (Representative image)
RANCHI: The vaccination drive in Jharkhand is likely to pick up pace on Tuesday after two days of disruption with the state receiving 257,000 doses on Monday afternoon.
The inoculation drive was partially suspended on Saturday and Sunday as the vaccine stock had run dry on Friday evening.
According to the state health department, a record 18,111 people were administered vaccines on Sunday, leaving a total of 38,700 doses for Monday.
However, the drive was affected on Monday morning too as session sites ran dry of stocks within a couple of hours after it started.
Ranchi: The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) on Thursday rescued 15 children, including a girl, while they were being trafficked from the stat.
Min: Fit to work, priority is improving govt school infra | Ranchi News indiatimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from indiatimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Ranchi: The bodies of the 15 workers who died during in a glacier burst in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand on April 23 arrived at Birsa Munda Internat.
Ranchi: Govind Kumar is a resident of Bagodar block in Giridih district. For nearly five years now, Govind has been working at a coffee shop in Mumbai’s Worli to sustain his family back home. Govind earns nearly Rs 30,000 a month, of which he can send a little back home. On Thursday, Govind doled out a chunk of his salary to purchase air tickets to the state. With Maharashtra announcing night curfews and lockdowns during the weekends in a desperate effort to tame the spiralling Covid-19 infection rate, Govind’s employers have downed the shutters indefinitely.
“Night curfews are in place till April 30, so my employer asked me to go home. He said he will summon me once situations ease out,” Govind said outside Ranchi’s Birsa Munda International Airport upon arrival.