Data story: India logs 1,574 new Covid cases; death toll at 529,008

India has added 9,914 cases in the past 7 days

India on October 29 reported a fall of 596 in active coronavirus cases taking the count to 18,802. The country is fiftieth among the most affected countries globally by active cases. On October 29, it added 1,574 cases to take its total caseload to 44,650,662. And, with 9 new deaths, including five fatalities reconciled by Kerala, its Covid-19 death toll reached 529,008, or 1.18 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 

With 172,838 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on October 28, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far has reached 2,196,218,338. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India,