Data story: India adds 2,424 new Covid cases; active tally at 28,079

India on October 10 reported a decrease of 514 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 28,079. The country is forty-fourth among the most affected countries globally by active cases. On October 10, it added 2,424 cases to take its total caseload to 44,614,437. And, with 15 new fatalities, including 12 more reconciled by Kerala, its Covid-19 death toll reached 528,814, or 1.19 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 

With 184,540 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on October 9, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 2,189,972,644. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 44,057,544 — or 98.75 per cent of the total caseload — with 2,923 new cured cases being reported on October 10.