Data story: India logs 12,608 new cases of Covid-19; 72 more deaths

India has added 91,868 cases in the past 7 days

India on August 18 reported a decrease of 3,715 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 101,343. The country is twenty-fourth among the most affected countries globally by active cases. On August 18, it added 12,608 cases to take its total caseload to 44,298,864. And, with 72 new fatalities, including 29 more reconciled by Kerala, its Covid-19 death toll reached 527,206, or 1.19 per cent of total confirmed infections.

With 3,864,471 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on August 17, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 2,089,579,722. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 43,670,315 — or 98.58 per cent of the total caseload — with 16,251 new cured cases being reported on August 18.