Data story: India logs 13,086 new Covid cases, death toll reaches 525,242

India reported an increase of 611 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 114,475. The country is twenty-fifth among the most affected countries globally by active cases. On July 5, it added 13,086 cases to take its total caseload to 43,531,650. And, with 19 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 525,242, or 1.21 per cent of total confirmed infections.

With 1,144,805 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on July 4, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 1,980,987,178. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 42,891,933 — or 98.53 per cent of the total caseload — with 12,456 new cured cases being reported on July 5.

• India has added 94,841 cases in the past 7 days.
• India has so far administered 1,980,987,178 vaccine doses.
• The count of active cases across India on July 5 saw an increase of 611, compared with 2,153 on July 4.
• With 12,456 new daily recoveries, India’s recovery rate stands at 98.53%, while the fatality rate remained unchanged at 1.21%.
• India’s new daily closed cases stand at 12,456 — 19 deaths and 12,475 recoveries.
• India on July 4 conducted 451,312 coronavirus tests to take the total count of tests conducted so far in the country to 864,451,219.
• The five most affected states by total cases are Maharashtra (7986811), Kerala (6653272), Karnataka (3973034), Tamil Nadu (3485429), and Andhra Pradesh (2322364).
• The five states with the most active cases are Kerala (29589), Maharashtra (21935), Tamil Nadu (15616), West Bengal (11139), and Karnataka (6474).
• The five states with the highest fatalities are Maharashtra (147943), Kerala (70048), Karnataka (40120), Tamil Nadu (38026), and Delhi (26272).