DATA STORY: Net increase in active cases for the first time since May 13

India on Thursday reported a net addition of 784 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 460,704. India’s share of global active coronavirus cases now stands at 3.93 per cent (one in 25). The country is fourth among the most affected countries by active cases. On Wednesday, it added 45,892 cases to take its total caseload to 30,709,557 from 30,663,665 — an increase of 0.1%. And, with 817 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 405,028, or 1.32 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 
With 3,381,671 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on Wednesday, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 364,847,549. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 29,843,825 – or 97.18 per cent of total caseload – with 44,291 new cured cases being reported on Thursday.
 

Now the fourth-most-affected country by active cases, third by deaths, second by total cases, and first by recoveries, India has added 297,923 cases in the past 7 days.

India now accounts for 3.93% of all active cases globally (one in every 25 active cases), and 10.08% of all deaths (one in every 10 deaths).

India has so far administered 364,847,549 vaccine doses. That is 1188.05 per cent of its total caseload, and 26.17 per cent of its population.

Among Indian states, the top 5 in terms of number of vaccine shots administered are Maharashtra (40140035), Uttar Pradesh (40125660), Gujarat (31293703), Rajasthan (30700753), and Karnataka (27585937).

Among states with more than 10 million population, the top 5 in number of vaccine shots per one million population are Delhi (510654), Kerala (496204), Gujarat (489941), Uttarakhand (477256), and J&K (416064).

Backwards from here, the last 1 million cases for India have come in 21 days.

The count of active cases across India on Thursday saw a net addition of 784, compared to net reduction of 4,437 on Wednesday. States and UTs hat have seen the biggest daily net increase in active cases are Kerala (3823), Maharashtra (333), Manipur (303), Mizoram (286), and Arunachal Pradesh (190).

With 44,291 new daily recoveries, India’s recovery rate stands at 97.18%, while fatality rate remained unchanged at 1.32%.

The Indian states and UTs with the worst case fatality rates at present are Punjab (2.70%), Uttarakhand (2.15%), and Maharashtra (2.02%). The rate in as many as 17 is higher than the national average.

India’s new daily closed cases stand at 45,108 — 817 deaths and 44,291 recoveries. The share of deaths in total closed cases stands at 1.81%.

India’s 5-day moving average of daily rate of addition to total cases stands at 0.1%.

India’s doubling time for total cases stands at 463.5 days, and for deaths at 343.3 days.

Overall, five states with the biggest 24-hour jump in total cases are Kerala (15600), Maharashtra (9558), Tamil Nadu (3367), Andhra Pradesh (3166), and Karnataka (2743).

Among states with more than 100,000 cases, the five with worst recovery rates at present are Kerala (95.93%) and Maharashtra (96.05%).

India on Wednesday conducted 1,893,800 coronavirus tests to take the total count of tests conducted so far in the country to 425,225,897. The test positivity rate recorded was 2.4%.

Five states with the highest test positivity rate (TPR) – percentage of tested people turning out to be positive for Covid-19 infection (by cumulative data for tests and cases – are Goa (17.63%), Dadra & Nagar Haveli-Daman & Diu (14.61%), Maharashtra (14.2%), Kerala (12.59%), and Sikkim (12.43%).

Five states with the highest TPR by daily numbers for tests and cases added – are, Sikkim (17.12%), Mizoram (15.44%), Manipur (13.58%), Kerala (10.36%), and Meghalaya (8.79%).

Among states and UTs with more than 10 million population, five that have carried out the highest number of tests (per million population) are Delhi (1175191), J&K (762865), Kerala (670003), Karnataka (522754), and Uttarakhand (507117).

The five most affected states by total cases are Maharashtra (6122893), Kerala (3011694), Karnataka (2862338), Tamil Nadu (2506848), and Andhra Pradesh (1911231).

Maharashtra, the most affected state overall, has reported 9558 new cases to take its tally to 6122893.

Kerala, the second-most-affected state by total tally, has added 15600 cases to take its tally to 3011694.

Karnataka, the third-most-affected state, has reported 3104 cases to take its tally to 2862338.

Tamil Nadu has added 3367 cases to take its tally to 2506848.

Andhra Pradesh has seen its tally going up by 3166 to 1911231.

Uttar Pradesh has added 116 cases to take its tally to 1706934.

Delhi has added 93 cases to take its tally to 1434780.