Data story: India logs 2,139 new Covid cases; death toll reaches 528,835

India has added 16,599 cases in the past 7 days

India on October 12 reported a decrease of 1,082 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 26,292. The country is forty-fifth among the most affected countries globally by active cases. On October 12, it added 2,139 cases to take its total caseload to 44,618,533. And, with 13 new fatalities, including four more reconciled by Kerala, its Covid-19 death toll reached 528,835, or 1.19 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 

With 493,352 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on October 11, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 2,190,969,572. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 44,063,406 — or 98.75 per cent of the total caseload — with 3,208 new cured cases being reported on October 12.