DATA STORY: India logs 6,358 new cases; death toll rises to 480,290

India on Tuesday reported a net reduction of 385 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 75,456. India’s share of global active coronavirus cases now stands at 0.3 per cent (one in 333). The country is thirty-third among the most affected countries by active cases. On Sunday, it added 6,358 cases to take its total caseload to 34,799,691 from 34,793,333 — an increase of 0.1%. And, with 293 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 480,290, or 1.38 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 
With 7,287,547 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on Monday, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 1,424,681,736. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 34,243,945 — or 98.4 per cent of total caseload — with 6,450 new cured cases being reported on Tuesday.
 

Now the thirty-third-most-affected country by active cases, third by deaths, second by total cases and recoveries, India has added 47,427 cases in the past 7 days.

India now accounts for 0.3% of all active cases globally (one in every 333 active cases), and 8.86% of all deaths (one in every 11 deaths).

India has so far administered 1,424,681,736 vaccine doses. That is 4093.94 per cent of its total caseload, and 101.84 per cent of its population.

Among Indian states, the top 5 in terms of number of vaccine shots administered are Uttar Pradesh (200801632), Maharashtra (136304310), West Bengal (106537189), Madhya Pradesh (104008335), and Bihar (99475289).

Among states with more than 10 million population, the top 5 in number of vaccine shots per one million population are Gujarat (1443156), Delhi (1432464), Jammu and Kashmir (1384480), Kerala (1380740), and Uttarakhand (1326388).

Backwards from here, the last 1 million cases for India have come in 87 days.

The count of active cases across India on Tuesday saw a net decrease of 385, compared with 925 on Monday. States and UTs hat have seen the biggest daily net increase in active cases are Maharashtra (629), Delhi (186), Gujarat (138), Jharkhand (116), and Haryana (64).

With 6,450 new daily recoveries, India’s recovery rate stands at 98.4%, while fatality rate remained unchanged at 1.38%.

The Indian states and UTs with the worst case fatality rates at present are Punjab (2.75%), Nagaland (2.18%), and Uttarakhand (2.15%). The rate in as many as 14 is higher than the national average.

India’s new daily closed cases stand at 6,743 — 293 deaths and 6,450 recoveries. The share of deaths in total closed cases stands at 4.34%.

India’s 5-day moving average of daily rate of addition to total cases stands at 0.0%.

India’s doubling time for total cases stands at 3793.5 days, and for deaths at 1135.9 days.

Overall, five states with the biggest 24-hour jump in total cases are Kerala (1636), Maharashtra (1426), Tamil Nadu (605), West Bengal (439), and Karnataka (331).

India on Monday conducted 1,035,495 coronavirus tests to take the total count of tests conducted so far in the country to 674,078,531. The test positivity rate recorded was 0.6%.

Five states with the highest test positivity rate (TPR) – percentage of tested people turning out to be positive for Covid-19 infection (by cumulative data for tests and cases – are Dadra & Nagar Haveli-Daman & Diu (14.76%), Kerala (12.73%), Sikkim (11.45%), Goa (11.15%), and Maharashtra (9.71%).

Five states with the highest TPR by daily numbers for tests and cases added – are Mizoram (10.27%), Nagaland (4.57%), Goa (3.99%), Kerala (3.88%), and West Bengal (2.52%).

Among states and UTs with more than 10 million population, five that have carried out the highest number of tests (per million population) are Delhi (1729201), J&K (1396531), Kerala (1152651), Punjab (1083359), and Karnataka (830200).

The five most affected states by total cases are Maharashtra (6659314), Kerala (5236758), Karnataka (3004876), Tamil Nadu (2744642), and Andhra Pradesh (2076546).

Maharashtra, the most affected state overall, has reported 1426 new cases to take its tally to 6659314.

Kerala, the second-most-affected state by total tally, has added 1636 cases to take its tally to 5236758.

Karnataka, the third-most-affected state, has reported 289 cases to take its tally to 3004876.

Tamil Nadu has added 605 cases to take its tally to 2744642.

Andhra Pradesh has seen its tally going up by 54 to 2076546.

Uttar Pradesh has added 39 cases to take its tally to 1710970.

Delhi has added 331 cases to take its tally to 1443683.