Data story: India adds 1,604 new Covid cases; active tally at 18,317

India has added 9,524 cases in the past 7 days

India on October 30 reported a fall of 485 in active coronavirus cases taking the count to 18,317. The country is fifty-second among the most affected countries globally by active cases. On October 20, it added 1,604 cases to take its total caseload to 44,652,266. And, with 8 new deaths, including three fatalities reconciled by Kerala, its Covid-19 death toll reached 529,016, or 1.18 per cent of total confirmed infections.\
 

With 139,111 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on October 29, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far has reached 2,196,357,449. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 44,104,933 — or 98.77 per cent of the total caseload — with 2,081 cured cases being reported on October 30.