Data story: India logs 15,528 Covid cases, active cases see net decline

India reported a decrease of 610 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 143,654. The country is twenty-sixth among the most affected countries globally by active cases. On July 19, it added 15,528 cases to take its total caseload to 43,783,062. And, with 25 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 525,785, or 1.20 per cent of total confirmed infections.

With 2,778,013 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on July 18, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 2,003,355,257. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 43,113,623 — or 98.47 per cent of the