Data story: India records 1,957 new Covid cases, lowest count in 140 days

India has added 16,928 cases in the past 7 days

India on October 11 reported a decrease of 705 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 27,374. The country is forty-fourth among the most affected countries globally by active cases. On October 11, it added 1,957 cases, the lowest in 150 days, to take its total caseload to 44,060,198. And, with eight new fatalities, including three more reconciled by Kerala, its Covid-19 death toll reached 528,822, or 1.19 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 

With 503,576 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on October 10, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 2,190,476,220. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 44,060,198 — or 98.75 per cent of the total caseload — with 2,654 new cured cases being reported on October 11.