DATA STORY: India now has fewer active coronavirus cases than France

India's new daily closed cases stand at 70,307 - 587 deaths and 69720 recoveries. The share of deaths in total closed cases stands at 0.83%

With yet another net decline on Tuesday, India’s count of active coronavirus cases came down to 748,538, which is fewer than France’s tally of 770,719 and the US’ 2,728,163. With sub-600 Covid-19 fatalitities for consecutive days – 587 reported on Tuesday – India’s death toll reached 115,197, while 69,720 cured cases pushed the country’s total recovered cases to 6,733,328, or 88.63 per cent of all confirmed infections so far. The country has reported as many as 1,545,503 cured coronavirus cases in October so far.
 
Overall, an addition of 46,790 cases – the lowest single-day spike since July 23 –