Data story: India adds 2,141 new Covid cases; active tally at 25,510

India has added 15,198 cases in the past 7 days

India on October 20 reported a decrease of 458 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 25,510. The country is forty-fourth among the most affected countries globally by active cases. On October 20, it added 2,141 cases to take its total caseload to 44,636,517. And, with 20 new fatalities, including 13 more reconciled by Kerala, its Covid-19 death toll reached 528,943, or 1.19 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 

With 490,711 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on October 19, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 2,194,634,236. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 44,082,064 — or 98.76 per cent of the total caseload — with 2,579 new cured cases being reported on October 20.