Data story: India logs 2,685 new Covid cases; death toll at 524,572

India has so far administered 1,931,341,918 vaccine doses

India reported an increase of 494 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 16,308. The country is fifty-sixth among the most affected countries by active cases. On May 28, it added 2,685 cases to take its total caseload to 43,150,215. And, with 33 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 524,572, or 1.22 per cent of total confirmed infections.

With 1,439,466 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on May 27, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 1,931,341,918. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 42,609,335 — or 98.74 per cent of total