Data story: India logs 4,417 new Covid cases; active tally at 52,336

India has added 48,277 cases in the past 7 days

India on September 6 reported a decrease of 1,638 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 52,336. The country is thirty-second among the most affected countries globally by active cases. On September 6, it added 4,417 cases to take its total caseload to 44,466,862. And, with 23 new fatalities, including one reconciled by Kerala, its Covid-19 death toll reached 528,030, or 1.19 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 

With 1,993,670 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on September 5, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 2,137,268,615. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile,