DATA STORY: India's daily new Covid cases lowest in 44 days; TPR drops to 9%

India on Friday reported a net reduction of 76,755 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 2,343,152. India’s share of global active coronavirus cases now stands at 16.04 per cent (one in 5). The country is second among the most affected countries by active cases. On Friday, it added 186,364 cases to take its total caseload to 27,555,457. And, with 3,660 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 318,895, or 1.16 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 
With 2,919,699 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on Thursday, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 205,720,660. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 24,893,410 – or 90.34 per cent of total caseload – with 259,459 new cured cases being reported on Friday.

 

• With a daily increase of 186,364 in total cases, the lowest daily increase in 44 days, India’s tally of coronavirus cases has risen from 27,369,093 on Thursday to 27,555,457 – an increase of 0.7%. Death toll has reached 318,895, with 3,660 fatalities. Now the second-most-affected country by active cases, total cases and recovery, and third by death, India has added 1,523,466 cases in the past 7 days.
• India now accounts for 16.04% of all active cases globally (one in every 6 active cases), and 9.04% of all deaths (one in every 11 deaths).
• India has so far administered 205,720,660 vaccine doses. That is 751.65 per cent of its total caseload, and 14.78 per cent of its population.
• Among Indian states, the top 5 in terms of number of vaccine shots administered are Maharashtra (26383673), Uttar Pradesh (22009005), Rajasthan (21180330), Gujarat (20238977), and West Bengal (17852530).
• Among states with more than 10 million population, the top 5 in number of vaccine shots per one million population are Delhi (336609), Kerala (322065), Gujarat (316866), Uttarakhand (304404), and Chhattisgarh (284078).
• Backwards from here, the last 1 million cases for India have come in 5 days.
• The count of active cases across India on Friday saw a net reduction of 76,755, compared with -75,684 on Thursday. States that have seen the biggest daily net increase in active cases are Odisha (6702), Tamil Nadu (2824), Assam (837), Manipur (219), and Meghalaya (200).
• With 259,459 new daily recoveries, India’s recovery rate stands at 90.34%, while fatality rate has increased marginally to 1.16%.
• The Indian states and UTs with the worst case fatality rates at present are Punjab (2.52%), Uttarakhand (1.92%), and Sikkim (1.69%). The rate in as many as 18 is higher than the national average.
• India’s new daily closed cases stand at 263,119 — 3,660 deaths and 259,459 recoveries. The share of deaths in total closed cases stands at 1.39%.
• India’s 5-day moving average of daily rate of addition to total cases stands at 0.8%.
• India’s doubling time for total cases stands at 102.1 days, and for deaths at 60.0 days.
• Overall, five states with the biggest 24-hour jump in total cases are Tamil Nadu (33361), Karnataka (24214), Kerala (24166), Maharashtra (21273), and Andhra Pradesh (16167).
• Among states with more than 100,000 cases, the five with worst recovery rates at present are Karnataka (82.98%), Tamil Nadu (83.05%), J&K (83.66%), Puducherry (84.18%), and Odisha (85.11%).
• India on Thursday conducted 2,070,508 coronavirus tests to take the total count of tests conducted so far in the country to 339,039,861. The test positivity rate recorded was 9.0%.
• Five states with the highest test positivity rate (TPR) – percentage of tested people turning out to be positive for Covid-19 infection (by cumulative data for tests and cases – are Goa (18.87%), Maharashtra (16.64%), Dadra & Nagar Haveli-Daman & Diu (14.02%), Kerala (12.68%), and Sikkim (12.44%).
• Five states with the highest TPR by daily numbers for tests and cases added – are Sikkim (27.29%), Goa (25.27%), West Bengal (22.82%), Andhra Pradesh (19.2%), and Tamil Nadu (19.16%).
• Among states and UTs with more than 10 million population, five that have carried out the highest number of tests (per million population) are Delhi (1015945), J&K (617619), Kerala (540743), Karnataka (432176), and Uttarakhand (414159).
• The five most affected states by total cases are Maharashtra (5672180), Karnataka (2523998), Kerala (2448554), Tamil Nadu (1978621), and Uttar Pradesh (1683865).
• Maharashtra, the most affected state overall, has reported 21,273 new cases to take its tally to 5672180. The state has added 267,112 cases in the past 10 days.
• Karnataka, the third-most-affected state, has reported 24,214 cases to take its tally to 2523998.
• Kerala, the second-most-affected state by total tally, has added 24,166 cases to take its tally to 2448554.
• Tamil Nadu has added 33,361 cases to take its tally to 1978621.
• Uttar Pradesh has added 3,181 cases to take its tally to 1683865.
• Andhra Pradesh has seen its tally going up by 16,167 to 1643557.
• Delhi has added 1,072 cases to take its tally to 1422549.