 "Data story: India adds 2,786 new Covid cases; active tally rises to 26,509")
India on October 12 reported an increase of 217 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 26,509. The country is forty-fourth among the most affected countries globally by active cases. On October 13, it added 2,786 cases to take its total caseload to 44,621,319. And, with 12 new fatalities, including six more reconciled by Kerala, its Covid-19 death toll reached 528,847, or 1.19 per cent of total confirmed infections.
With 569,709 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on October 12, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 21,915,39,281. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 44,065,963 — or 98.76 per cent of the total caseload — with 2,557 new cured cases being reported on October 13.
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