Data story: India logs 2,710 new Covid cases; death toll at 524,539

India has so far administered 1,929,774,973 vaccine doses

India reported an increase of 400 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 15,814. The country is fifty-sixth among the most affected countries by active cases. On May 27, it added 2,710 cases to take its total caseload to 43,147,530. And, with 14 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 524,539, or 1.22 per cent of total confirmed infections.

With 1,441,072 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on May 26, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 1,929,774,973. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 42,607,177 — or 98.74 per cent of total caseload — with 2,296 new cured cases being reported on May 27.