Data story: India logs new Covid cases, active tally sees net decline

India has added 129,558 cases in the past 7 days

India reported a decrease of 4,197 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 139,792. The country is twenty-ninth among the most affected countries globally by active cases. On August 2, it added 13,734 cases to take its total caseload to 44,050,009. And, with 34 new fatalities, including 7 more reconciled by Kerala, its Covid-19 death toll reached 526,430, or 1.20 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 

With 2,677,405 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on August 1, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 2,046,081,081. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 43,383,787 — or 98.49 per cent of the total caseload — with 17,897 new cured cases being reported on August 2.