Data story: India adds 275 new Covid cases; active tally sees net decline

India has added 2,083 cases in the past 7 days

India on December 2 reported a fall of 95 in active coronavirus cases taking the count to 4,672. The country is eightieth among the most affected countries globally by active cases. On December 2, it added 275 cases to take its total caseload to 44,672,913. And, with 2 new death, its Covid-19 death toll reached 530,624, or 1.19 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 

With 52,299 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on December 1, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far has reached 2,199,328,575. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 44,137,617 — or 98.80 per cent of the total caseload — with 368 cured cases being reported on December 2.