Data story: India logs 16,906 new Covid cases, 122,041 infections in 7 days

India reported an increase of 1,414 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 132,457. The country is twenty-fifth among the most affected countries globally by active cases. On July 13, it added 16,906 cases to take its total caseload to 43,669,850. And, with 45 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 525,519, or 1.20 per cent of total confirmed infections.

With 1,115,068 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on July 12, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 1,991,279,010. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 43,011,874 — or 98.49 per cent of the total caseload — with 15,447 new cured cases being reported on July 13.

• India has added 122,041 cases in the past 7 days.
• India has so far administered 1,991,279,010 vaccine doses.
• The count of active cases across India on July 13 saw an increase of 1,414, compared with 330 on July 12.
• With 15,447 new daily recoveries, India’s recovery rate stands at 98.49%, while the fatality rate remained unchanged at 1.20%.
• India’s new daily closed cases stand at 15,492 — 45 deaths and 15,447 recoveries.
• India on July 12 conducted 459,302 coronavirus tests to take the total count of tests conducted so far in the country to 867,769,574.

The five most affected states by total cases are Maharashtra (8007648), Kerala (6677772), Karnataka (3980585), Tamil Nadu (3506257), and Andhra Pradesh (2324796).

The five states with the most active cases are West Bengal (25880), Kerala (25683), Tamil Nadu (18710), Maharashtra (17567), and Karnataka (6419).

The five states with the highest fatalities are Maharashtra (147991), Kerala (70170), Karnataka (40125), Tamil Nadu (38028), and Delhi (26285).