DATA STORY: India reports its highest number of Covid-19 deaths in a day

India's new daily closed cases stand at 74,654 - 1,133 deaths and 73,521 recoveries. The share of deaths in total closed cases stands at 1.54%

A day after reporting its biggest single-day surge in active and total coronavirus cases, India was respite on these two on Tuesday, but reported its biggest single-day jump in Covid-19 deaths, at 1,133. While the country’s net addition of active cases stood at 1,155, against 20,222 a day before, total cases added in a day reduced from 90,802 to 75,809. The total count of active coronavirus cases in India now stands at 883,697, total cases at 4,280,422, and death toll at 72,775.
 
The second-most-affected country by active and total cases, and third by fatality, India has added 589,256 cases