Data story: India logs 2,706 new Covid cases; death toll at 524,611

India reported an increase of 611 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 17,698. The country is fifty-sixth among the most affected countries by active cases. On May 30, it added 2,706 cases to take its total caseload to 43,155,749. And, with 25 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 524, 611, or 1.22 per cent of total confirmed infections.

With 228,823 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on May 29, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 1,933,157,352. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 42,613,440 — or 98.75 per cent of total caseload — with 2,070 new cured cases being reported on May 30.

• India has added 17,356 cases in the past 7 days.
• India has so far administered 1,933,157,352 vaccine doses.
• The count of active cases across India on May 30 increased by 611, compared with 779 on May 29.
• With 2,070 new daily recoveries, India’s recovery rate stands at 98.75%, while fatality rate remained unchanged at 1.22%.
• India’s new daily closed cases stand at 2,095— 25 deaths and 2,070 recoveries.
• India on May 29 conducted 278,267 coronavirus tests to take the total count of tests conducted so far in the country to 850,077,409
• The five most affected states by total cases are Maharashtra (7885394), Kerala (6554669), Karnataka (3951498), Tamil Nadu (3455210), and Andhra Pradesh (2319914).
• The five states with most active cases are Kerala (5071), Maharashtra (2772), Karnataka (1898), Delhi (1641), and Haryana (1166).
• The five states with highest fatalities are Maharashtra (147858), Kerala (69700), Karnataka (40106), Tamil Nadu (38025), and Delhi (26208).