DATA STORY: In 7 days, India saw 600k recoveries, 7,529 deaths; active cases fell by 256K

With 85376 new daily recoveries on Thursday, India's recovery rate has improved to 83.53; the fatality rate has come down to 1.56%

In the past seven days, India has added a cumulative 580,066 to its tally of confirmed coronavirus cases, its death toll rose by 7,529, and recoveries increased by 598,214. The count of active cases, meanwhile, declined by 25,677 on a net basis during this period.
 
The country on Thursday reported a net increase of 264 to take the number of active cases to 940,705. An addition of 86,821 overall pushed the tally to 6,312,584. With 1,181 fatalities in 24 hours, the country’s death toll reached 98,678. And with 85,376 new cured cases, total recoveries reached 5,273,201, or 83.53 of