Data story: India records 862 new Covid-19 cases, lowest in 196 days

India has so far administered 2,195,665,598 vaccine doses

India on October 25 reported a decrease of 644 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 22,549. The country is forty-eighth among the most affected countries globally by active cases. On October 25, it added 862 cases to take its total caseload to 44,644,938. And, with 3 new fatalities, including two more reconciled by Kerala, its Covid-19 death toll reached 528980, or 1.19 per cent of total confirmed infections.

With 23,791 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on October 24, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 2,195,665,598. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 44,093,409 — or 98.76 per cent of the total caseload — with 1,503 new cured cases being reported on October 25.