Data story: India records 1,968 Covid cases, 7 deaths in 24 hours

India's new Covid cases count, at 1,968, was the lowest in 133 days

India on October 3 reported a decrease of 1,528 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 34,598. The country is thirty-eighth among the most affected countries globally by active cases. On October 4, it added 1,968 cases to take its total caseload to 44,599,466. And, with 15 new fatalities, including eight more reconciled by Kerala, its Covid-19 death toll reached 528,716, or 1.19 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 

With 344,525 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on October 3, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 2,188,050,600. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 44,036,152 — or 98.73 per cent of the total caseload — with 3,481 new cured cases being reported on October 4.