DATA STORY: Punjab has worst case fatality rate at 3.15%, Maharashtra's at 2.61%

India on Monday conducted 1,099,545 coronavirus tests, taking the total count of tests conducted so far in the country to 133,682,275. The test positivity rate recorded was 3.5%

A daily net reduction of 4,819 on Tuesday brought India’s count of active coronavirus cases down to 438,667, or 4.78 per cent of all cases. The country, now seventh most affected globally on this parameter, accounts for 2.59 per cent of all active cases across the world, or one in every 39. Overall, the country added 37,975 cases to take its tally to 9,177,840.
 
National capital Delhi, which is witnessing a third wave of infections, reported an increase of 4,454 cases and 121 more deaths, the most in a day so far, in the past 24 hours. Its tally