Data story: India logs 17,339 cases, biggest single-day spike in 124 days

India has added 91,717 cases in the past 7 days

India reported an increase of 4,294 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 88,284. The country is twenty-third among the most affected countries globally by active cases. On June 24, it added 17,336 cases to take its total caseload to 43,362,294. And, with 13 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 524,954, or 1.21 per cent of total confirmed infections.

With 1,371,107 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on June 23, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 1,967,733,217. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 42,749,056 — or 98.59 per cent of total caseload — with 13,029 new cured cases being reported on June 25.