Data story: India logs 16,866 new cases, active infections see net decline

India has added 138,087 cases in the past 7 days

India reported a decrease of 1,323 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 150,877. The country is twenty-ninth among the most affected countries globally by active cases. On July 25, it added 16,866 cases to take its total caseload to 43,905,621. And, with 41 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 526,074 , or 1.20 per cent of total confirmed infections.

With 1,682,390 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on July 24, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 202,766,615. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 43,228,670 — or 98.46 per cent of the total caseload — with 18,148 new cured cases being reported on July 25.