Data story: India logs 3,207 new cases; death toll rises to 524,093

India on Monday reported a net decrease of 232 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 20,403. India’s share of global active coronavirus cases now stands at 0.02 per cent (one in 5,000). The country is seventy-fifth among the most affected countries by active cases. On Sunday, it added 3,207 cases to take its total caseload to 43,105,401 from 43,102,194 — an increase of 0.01%. And, with 29 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 524,093, or 1.22 per cent of total confirmed infections.

 

With 1,350,622 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on Sunday, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 1,903,490,396. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 42,560,905 — or 98.74 per cent of total caseload — with 3,410 new cured cases being reported on Monday.

 

 

• Now the seventy-fifth-most-affected country by active cases, third by deaths, second by total cases and recoveries, India has added 23,056 cases in the past 7 days.
• India now accounts for 0.02% of all active cases globally (one in every 5,000 active cases), and 8.48% of all deaths (one in every 12 deaths).
• India has so far administered 1,903,490,396 vaccine doses. That is 4415.89 per cent of its total caseload, and 135.7 per cent of its population.
• Backwards from here, the last 1 million cases for India have come in 93 days.
• The count of active cases across India on Monday saw a net decrease of 615, compared to net increase of 332 on Sunday. States and UTs hat have seen the biggest daily net increase in active cases are Kerala (63), Odisha (57), Haryana (50), Maharashtra (27), and Gujarat (22).
• With 3,410 new daily recoveries, India’s recovery rate stands at 98.74%, while fatality rate remained unchanged at 1.21%
• The Indian states and UTs with the worst case fatality rates at present are Punjab (2.34%), Nagaland (2.14%), and Maharashtra (1.88%). The rate in as many as 12 is higher than the national average.
• India’s new daily closed cases stand at 3,439 — 29 deaths and 3,410 recoveries. The share of deaths in total closed cases stands at 0.63%.
• India’s 5-day moving average of daily rate of addition to total cases stands at 0.1%.
• India’s doubling time for total cases stands at 9316.3 days, and for deaths at 12526.3 days.
• Overall, five states with the biggest 24-hour jump in total cases are Delhi (1422), Haryana (513), Kerala (381), Maharashtra (224), and Karnataka (112).
• India on Sunday conducted 336,776 coronavirus tests to take the total count of tests conducted so far in the country to 841,029,858. The test positivity rate recorded was 0.5%.
• The five most affected states by total cases are Maharashtra (7879278), Kerala (6544244), Karnataka (3948747), Tamil Nadu (3454353), and Andhra Pradesh (2319746).
• Maharashtra, the most affected state overall, has reported 224 new cases to take its tally to 7879278.
• Kerala, the second-most-affected state by total tally, has added 381 cases to take its tally to 6544244.
• Karnataka, the third-most-affected state, has reported 112 cases to take its tally to 3948747.
• Tamil Nadu has added 47 cases to take its tally to 3454353.
• Andhra Pradesh has seen its tally going up by 9 to 2319746.
• Uttar Pradesh has added 85 cases to take its tally to 2076362.
• West Bengal has added 51 cases to take its tally to 2018579.
• Delhi has added 1422 cases to take its tally to 1894254.