Data story: India logs 21,880 new Covid cases, death toll reaches 525,930

India reported an increase of 601 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 149,482. The country is twenty-eighth among the most affected countries globally by active cases. On July 22, it added 21,880 cases to take its total caseload to 43,847,065. And, with 60 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 525,930, or 1.20 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 

With 3,706,997 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on July 21, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 2,013,097,819. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 43,171,653 — or 98.46 per cent of the total caseload — with 21,219 new cured cases being reported on July 22.

• India has added 137,038 cases in the past 7 days.
• India has so far administered 2,013,097,819 vaccine doses.
• The count of active cases across India on July 21 saw an increase of 601, compared with 3527 on July 21.
• With 21,219 new daily recoveries, India’s recovery rate stands at 98.46%, while the fatality rate remained unchanged at 1.21%.
• India’s new daily closed cases stand at 21,279 — 60 deaths and 21,219 recoveries.
• India on July 21 conducted 495,359 coronavirus tests to take the total count of tests conducted so far in the country to 871,656,205.
• The five most affected states by total cases are Maharashtra (8027395), Kerala (6702342), Karnataka (3991609), Tamil Nadu (3526351), and Andhra Pradesh (2328666).
• The five states with the most active cases are West Bengal (27755), Kerala (21770), Tamil Nadu (16504), Maharashtra (14519), and Karnataka (8033).
• The five states with the highest fatalities are Maharashtra (148045), Kerala (70334), Karnataka (40132), Tamil Nadu (38031), and Delhi (26297).