Data story: India records 4,858 new Covid cases; active tally at 48,027

India has added 38,466 cases in the past 7 days

India on September 19 reported an increase of 105 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 48,027. The country is thirty-fourth among the most affected countries globally by active cases. On September 19, it added 4,858 cases to take its total caseload to 44,539,046. And, with 18 new fatalities, including eight more reconciled by Kerala, its Covid-19 death toll reached 528,355, or 1.19 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 

With 1,359,361 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on September 18, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 2,167,014,127. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 43,962,664 — or 98.71 per cent of the total caseload — with 4,735 new cured cases being reported on September 19.