DATA STORY: 8,954 cases added; active cases drop below 100,000-mark

India on Wednesday reported a net reduction of 1,520 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 99,023. India’s share of global active coronavirus cases now stands at 0.49 per cent (one in 204). The country is twenty-seventh among the most affected countries by active cases. On Tuesday, it added 8,954 cases to take its total caseload to 34,596,776 from 34,587,822 — an increase of 0.1%. And, with 267 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 469,247, or 1.36 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 
With 8,098,716 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on Tuesday, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 1,241,086,850. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 34,028,506 — or 98.36 per cent of total caseload — with 10,207 new cured cases being reported on Wednesday.
 

Now the twenty-seventh-most-affected country by active cases, third by deaths, second by total cases and recoveries, India has added 61,013 cases in the past 7 days.

India now accounts for 0.49% of all active cases globally (one in every 204 active cases), and 8.97% of all deaths (one in every 11 deaths).

India has so far administered 1,241,086,850 vaccine doses. That is 3647.19 per cent of its total caseload, and 88.72 per cent of its population.

Among Indian states, the top 5 in terms of number of vaccine shots administered are Uttar Pradesh (167454606), Maharashtra (118998728), West Bengal (96891368), Madhya Pradesh (89066517), and Gujarat (84653733).

Among states with more than 10 million population, the top 5 in number of vaccine shots per one million population are Gujarat (1325357), Kerala (1278637), Delhi (1271491), Jammu and Kashmir (1270629), and Uttarakhand (1177072).

Backwards from here, the last 1 million cases for India have come in 68 days.

The count of active cases across India on Wednesday saw a net reduction of 1,520, compared with 3,316 on Monday. States and UTs hat have seen the biggest daily net increase in active cases are Andhra Pradesh (47), Assam (30), Ladakh (26), Odisha (23), and Gujarat (13).

With 10,207 new daily recoveries, India’s recovery rate stands at 98.36%, while fatality rate remained unchanged at 1.36%.

The Indian states and UTs with the worst case fatality rates at present are Punjab (2.75%), Nagaland (2.17%), and Uttarakhand (2.15%). The rate in as many as 12 is higher than the national average.

India’s new daily closed cases stand at 10,474— 267 deaths and 10,207 recoveries. The share of deaths in total closed cases stands at 2.54%.

India’s 5-day moving average of daily rate of addition to total cases stands at 0.1%.

India’s doubling time for total cases stands at 2677.9 days, and for deaths at 1217.8 days.

Overall, five states with the biggest 24-hour jump in total cases are Kerala (4723), Tamil Nadu (720), West Bengal (705), Maharashtra (678), and Mizoram (365).

India on Tuesday conducted 1,108,467 coronavirus tests to take the total count of tests conducted so far in the country to 642,412,315. The test positivity rate recorded was 0.8%.

Five states with the highest test positivity rate (TPR) – percentage of tested people turning out to be positive for Covid-19 infection (by cumulative data for tests and cases – are Dadra & Nagar Haveli-Daman & Diu (14.75%), Kerala (12.97%), Sikkim (11.66%), Goa (11.57%), and Maharashtra (10.12%).

Five states with the highest TPR by daily numbers for tests and cases added – are Mizoram (7.93%), Kerala (7.21%), Sikkim (2.8%), Nagaland (1.93%), and West Bengal (1.92%).

Among states and UTs with more than 10 million population, five that have carried out the highest number of tests (per million population) are Delhi (1652799), J&K (1294286), Kerala (1110115), Karnataka (789244), and Telangana (726105).

The five most affected states by total cases are Maharashtra (6635658), Kerala (5141814), Karnataka (2996148), Tamil Nadu (2726917), and Andhra Pradesh (2072909).

Maharashtra, the most affected state overall, has reported 678 new cases to take its tally to 6635658.

Kerala, the second-most-affected state by total tally, has added 4723 cases to take its tally to 5141814.

Karnataka, the third-most-affected state, has reported 291 cases to take its tally to 2996148.

Tamil Nadu has added 720 cases to take its tally to 2726917.

Andhra Pradesh has seen its tally going up by 184 to 2072909.

Uttar Pradesh has added 12 cases to take its tally to 1710399.

Delhi has added 34 cases to take its tally to 1440934.