Data story: India records 291 Covid cases in 24 hours; 2 new deaths

India has added 2,155 cases in the past 7 days

India on December 1 reported a fall of 88 in active coronavirus cases taking the count to 4,767. The country is eightieth among the most affected countries globally by active cases. On December 1, it added 291 cases to take its total caseload to 44,672,638. And, with 2 new death, its Covid-19 death toll reached 530,622, or 1.19 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 

With 66,194 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on November 30, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far has reached 2,199,276,276. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 44,137,249 — or 98.80 per cent of the total caseload — with 377 cured cases being reported on December 1.