Data story: India logs 1,569 new Covid cases; death toll at 524,260

India has so far administered 1,905,086,706 vaccine doses

India reported a decline of 917 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 16,400. The country is fifty-fifth among the most affected countries by active cases. On May 17, it added 1,569 cases to take its total caseload to 43,125,370. And, with 19 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 524,260, or 1.22 per cent of total confirmed infections.

With 1,078,005 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on May 16, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 1,914,894,858. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 42,584,710 — or 98.75 per cent of total caseload