Data story: India logs 2,706 new Covid cases; death toll at 524,611

India has so far administered 1,933,157,352 vaccine doses

India reported an increase of 611 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 17,698. The country is fifty-sixth among the most affected countries by active cases. On May 30, it added 2,706 cases to take its total caseload to 43,155,749. And, with 25 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 524, 611, or 1.22 per cent of total confirmed infections.

With 228,823 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on May 29, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 1,933,157,352. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 42,613,440 — or 98.75 per cent of total