Data story: India logs 17,070 new Covid cases, death toll reaches 525,139

India has added 106,940 cases in the past 7 days

India reported an increase of 2,634 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 107,189. The country is twenty-fourth among the most affected countries globally by active cases. On July 1, it added 17,070 cases to take its total caseload to 43,469,234. And, with 23 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 525,139, or 1.21 per cent of total confirmed infections.

With 1,167,503 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on June 30, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 1,977,471,041. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 42,836,906 — or 98.55 per cent of the total caseload — with 14,413 new cured cases being reported on July 1.