Data story: India logs 7,591 new Covid cases; death toll at 527,799

India on August 29 reported a decrease of 1,660 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 84,931. The country is twenty-first among the most affected countries globally by active cases. On August 29, it added 7,591 cases to take its total caseload to 44,415,723. And, with 45 new fatalities, including 15 more reconciled by Kerala, its Covid-19 death toll reached 527,799, or 1.19 per cent of total confirmed infections.

With 2,470,330 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on August 28, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 2,119,105,738. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 43,802,993 — or 98.62 per cent of the total caseload — with 9,206 new cured cases being reported on August 29.

1. India has added 66,763 cases in the past 7 days.
2. India has so far administered 2,119,105,738 vaccine doses.
3. The count of active cases across India on August 29 saw a decrease of 1,660, compared with 720 on August 28.
4. With 9,206 new daily recoveries, India’s recovery rate stands at 98.62%, while the fatality rate at 1.19%.
5. India’s new daily closed cases stand at 9,251 — 45 deaths and 9,206 recoveries.
6. India on August 27 conducted 165,751 coronavirus tests to take the total count of tests conducted so far in the country to 885,208,552.
7. The five most affected states by total cases are Maharashtra (8096484), Kerala (6752218), Karnataka (4049411), Tamil Nadu (3567160), and Andhra Pradesh (2336725).
8. The five states with the most active cases are Punjab (17678), Maharashtra (11679), Kerala (8551), Karnataka (7859), and Tamil Nadu (5268).
9. The five states with the highest fatalities are Maharashtra (148229), Kerala (70808), Karnataka (40234), Tamil Nadu (38034), and Delhi (26458).