Data story: India logs 18,257 new Covid cases, active tally at 128,690

India has added 120,222 cases in the past 7 days

India reported an increase of 3,662 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 128,690. The country is twenty-fifth among the most affected countries globally by active cases. On July 10, it added 18,257 cases to take its total caseload to 43,622,651. And, with 42 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 525,428, or 1.21 per cent of total confirmed infections.

With 1,021,164 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on July 9, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 1,987,659,299. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 42,968,533 — or 98.50 per cent of the total caseload — with 14,553 new cured cases being reported on July 10.