Data story: India logs 2,529 new Covid cases; death toll at 528,745

India has added 21,103 cases in the past 7 days

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Business Standard New Delhi
2 min read Last Updated : Oct 06 2022 | 9:28 AM IST
India on October 6 reported a decrease of 1,036 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 32,282. The country is forty-first among the most affected countries globally by active cases. On October 6, it added 2,529 cases to take its total caseload to 44,604,463. And, with 12 new fatalities, including six more reconciled by Kerala, its Covid-19 death toll reached 528,745, or 1.19 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 
With 79,366 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on October 5, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 2,188,420,182. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 44,043,436 — or 98.74 per cent of the total caseload — with 3,553 new cured cases being reported on October 6.
 

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