Data story: India logs 2,208 new Covid cases; death toll at 528,999

India has added 10,452 cases in the past 7 days

India on October 28 reported a decrease of 1,423 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 19,398. The country is forty-fourth among the most affected countries globally by active cases. On October 28, it added 2,208 cases to take its total caseload to 44,649,088. And, with 12 new deaths, including nine fatalities reconciled by Kerala, its Covid-19 death toll reached 528,999, or 1.18 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 

With 160,714 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on October 27, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 2,196,045,500. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 44,100,691 — or 98.77 per cent of the total caseload — with 3,619 new cured cases being reported on October 28.