Data story: India logs 11,739 new Covid cases, death toll reaches 524,999

India has added 93,281 cases in the past 7 days

India reported an increase of 797 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 92,576. The country is twenty-fourth among the most affected countries globally by active cases. On June 26, it added 11,739 cases to take its total caseload to 43,389,973. And, with 25 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 524,999, or 1.21 per cent of total confirmed infections.

With 1,272,739 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on June 25, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 1,970,851,580. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 42,772,398 — or 98.58 per cent of