Data story: India logs 18,815 new Covid cases, death toll at 525,343

India has added 116,320 cases in the past 7 days.

India reported an increase of 2,878 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 122,335. The country is twenty-fourth among the most affected countries globally by active cases. On July 8, it added 18,815 cases to take its total caseload to 43,585,554. And, with 38 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 525,343, or 1.21 per cent of total confirmed infections.

With 1,762,441 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on July 7, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 1,985,177,962. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 42,937,876 — or 98.51 per cent of the total caseload — with 15,899 new cured cases being reported on July 8.