Data story: India logs 2,124 new Covid cases; death toll at 524,507

India reported 130 new active coronavirus cases to take its count to 14,971. On May 25, it added 2,124 cases to take its total caseload to 43,142,192. And, with 17 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 524,507, or 1.22 per cent of total confirmed infections.

With 1,327,544 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on May 24, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 1,926,744,769. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 42,602,714 — or 98.74 per cent of total caseload — with 1,977 new cured cases being reported on May 25.

• India has added 14,993 cases in the past 7 days.
• India has so far administered 1,926,744,769 vaccine doses.
• The count of active tally across India on May 25 saw an increase of 130 cases, compared with 9 on May 24.
• With 1,977 new daily recoveries, India’s recovery rate stands at 98.74%, while fatality rate remained unchanged at 1.21%.
• India’s new daily closed cases stand at 1,994 — 17 deaths and 1,977 recoveries.
• India on May 24 conducted 4,58,924coronavirus tests to take the total count of tests conducted so far in the country to 847,958,776.
• The five most affected states by total cases are Maharashtra (7,883,348), Kerala (6551537), Karnataka (3,950,770), Tamil Nadu (3,454,984), and Andhra Pradesh(2,319,891).
• The five states with most active cases are Kerala (3,955), Maharashtra (2,039), Delhi (1,841), Karnataka (1,715), and Haryana (1,062).
• The five states with highest fatalities are Maharashtra (147,857), Kerala (69,630), Karnataka (40,106), Tamil Nadu (38,025), and Delhi (26,203).