Data story: India adds 3,615 new Covid cases; death toll at 528,584

India has added 31,489 cases in the past 7 days

India on September 28 reported a decrease of 1,379 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 40,979. The country is thirty-seventh among the most affected countries globally by active cases. On September 28, it added 3,615 cases to take its total caseload to 44,579,088. And, with 22 new fatalities, including eight more reconciled by Kerala, its Covid-19 death toll reached 528,584, or 1.19 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 

With 1,387,533 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on September 27, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 2,179,631,500. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 44,009,525 — or 98.72 per cent of the total caseload — with 4,972 new cured cases being reported on September 28.