Data story: India logs 2,745 new Covid cases; death toll at 524,636

India has so far administered 1,935,720,807 vaccine doses

India reported an increase of 503 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 18,386. The country is fifty-second among the most affected countries by active cases. On June 1, it added 2,745 cases to take its total caseload to 43,160,832. And, with 6 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 524,636, or 1.22 per cent of total confirmed infections.

With 1,091,110 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on May 31, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 1,935,720,807. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 42,617,810 — or 98.75 per cent of