DATA STORY: India adds 27,254 cases in 24 hrs; smallest spike in 20 days

India on Monday reported a net decrease of 10,652 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 374,269. India’s share of global active coronavirus cases now stands at 1.99 per cent (one in 50). The country is seventh among the most affected countries by active cases. On Sunday, it added 27,254 cases to take its total caseload to 33,264,175 from 33,236,921 — an increase of 0.1%. And, with 219 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 442,874, or 1.33 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 
With 5,338,945 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on Sunday, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 743,837,643. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 32,447,032 – or 97.54 per cent of total caseload – with 37,681 new cured cases being reported on Monday.
 

Now the seventh-most-affected country by active cases, third by deaths, second by total cases, and first by recoveries, India has added 236,554 cases in the past 7 days.

India now accounts for 1.99% of all active cases globally (one in every 50 active cases), and 9.55% of all deaths (one in every 10 deaths).

India has so far administered 723,784,586 vaccine doses. That is 2236.15 per cent of its total caseload, and 53.31 per cent of its population.

Among Indian states, the top 5 in terms of number of vaccine shots administered are Uttar Pradesh (91770706), Maharashtra (72586329), Gujarat (56048346), Rajasthan (54565497), and Madhya Pradesh (54338959).

Among states with more than 10 million population, the top 5 in number of vaccine shots per one million population are Kerala (961138), Uttarakhand (883149), Gujarat (877505), Delhi (858137), and Karnataka (745015).

Backwards from here, the last 1 million cases for India have come in 27 days.

The count of active cases across India on Monday saw a net reduction of 10,652, compared with 6,595 on Sunday. States and UTs hat have seen the biggest daily net increase in active cases are Tamil Nadu (74), Puducherry (16), Bihar (5), Gujarat (3), and Madhya Pradesh (2).

With 37,687 new daily recoveries, India’s recovery rate stands at 97.54%, while fatality rate remained unchanged at 1.33%.

The Indian states and UTs with the worst case fatality rates at present are Punjab (2.74%), Uttarakhand (2.15%), and Maharashtra (2.12%). The rate in as many as 16 is higher than the national average.

India’s new daily closed cases stand at 37,906 — 219 deaths and 37,687 recoveries. The share of deaths in total closed cases stands at 0.57%.

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 845.7 days, and for deaths at 1401.4 days.

Overall, five states with the biggest 24-hour jump in total cases are Kerala (20240), Tamil Nadu (1608), Andhra Pradesh (1190), Karnataka (803), and West Bengal (751).

Among states with more than 100,000 cases, the five with worst recovery rates at present are Kerala (94.39%).

India on Monday conducted 1,208,247 coronavirus tests to take the total count of tests conducted so far in the country to 543,014,076. The test positivity rate recorded was 2.3%.

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 (14.74%), Goa (13.8%), Kerala (13.13%), Sikkim (12.64%), and Maharashtra (11.6%).

Five states with the highest TPR by daily numbers for tests and cases added – are Kerala (17.51%), Mizoram (6.94%), Manipur (6.51%), Meghalaya (3.85%), and Himachal Pradesh (2.66%).

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 (1415404), J&K (1024549), Kerala (933687), Karnataka (670408), and Telangana (646076).

The five most affected states by total cases are Maharashtra (6497877), Kerala (4375431), Karnataka (2961735), Tamil Nadu (2633839), and Andhra Pradesh (2029985).

Maharashtra, the most affected state overall, has reported 5 new cases to take its tally to 6497877.

Kerala, the second-most-affected state by total tally, has added 20240 cases to take its tally to 4375431.

Karnataka, the third-most-affected state, has reported 803 cases to take its tally to 2961735.

Tamil Nadu has added 1608 cases to take its tally to 2633839.

Andhra Pradesh has seen its tally going up by 1190 to 2029985.

Uttar Pradesh has added 21 cases to take its tally to 1709547.

Delhi has added 22 cases to take its tally to 1438233.