Data story: India logs 20,528 new Covid cases, 127,948 infections in 7 days

India reported an increase of 2,689 in active coronavirus cases on Sunday

India reported an increase of 2,689 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 143,449. The country is twenty-seventh among the most affected countries globally by active cases. On July 18, it added 20,528 cases to take its total caseload to 43,750,599. And, with 49 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 525,709, or 1.20 per cent of total confirmed infections.

With 2,559,840 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on July 16, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 1,999,889,097. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 43,081,441 — or 98.47 per cent of the total caseload — with 17,790 new cured cases being reported on July 17.