Data story: India logs 5,379 new Covid cases; death toll at 528,057

India has so far administered 2,139,149,934 vaccine doses

India on September 7 reported a decrease of 1,742 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 50,594. The country is thirty-second among the most affected countries globally by active cases. On September 7, it added 5,379 cases to take its total caseload to 44,472,241. And, with 27 new fatalities, including 11 reconciled by Kerala, its Covid-19 death toll reached 528,057, or 1.19 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 

With 1,881,319 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on September 5, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 2,139,149,934. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile,