Data story: India adds 16,561 new Covid cases, death toll at 526,928

India has added 115,969 cases in the past 7 days

India on August 12 reported a decrease of 1541 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 123,535. The country is twenty-fourth among the most affected countries globally by active cases. On August 12, it added 16,561 cases to take its total caseload to 43,129,563. And, with 49 new fatalities, including 10 more reconciled by Kerala, its Covid-19 death toll reached 526,928, or 1.20 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 

With 1,772,441 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on August 11, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 2,074,719,034. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 43,573,094 — or 98.53 per cent of the total caseload — with 18,053 new cured cases being reported on August 12.