Data story: India records 343 new Covid cases; death toll at 530,612

India has added 2,547 cases in the past 7 days

India on November 26 reported a fall of 132 in active coronavirus cases taking the count to 5,263. The country is seventy-fourth among the most affected countries globally by active cases. On November 27, it added 343 cases to take its total caseload to 44,671,562. And, with 4 new deaths, its Covid-19 death toll reached 530,612, or 1.18 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 

With 56,235 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on November 26, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far has reached 2,199,084,428. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 44,135,687 — or 98.80 per cent of the total caseload — with 471 cured cases being reported on November 27.