Data story: India logs 4,041 new Covid cases; death toll at 524,651

India has so far administered 1,938,372,365 vaccine doses

India reported an increase of 1,668 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 21,177. The country is fifty-first among the most affected countries by active cases. On June 3, it added 4,041 cases to take its total caseload to 43,168,585. And, with 10 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 524,651, or 1.22 per cent of total confirmed infections.

With 1,205,840 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on June 2, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 1,938,372,365. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 42,622,757 — or 98.74 per cent of total caseload — with 2, 363 new cured cases being reported on June 3.