DATA STORY: India adds more than 50,000 cases for the first time in 12 days

The count of active cases across India has seen a net reduction of 5825, compared with 7618 on Wednesday. The total now stands at 527962, the lowest active case tally since July 29

In yet another day of net reduction in active coronavirus cases, India on Thursday reported a decline of 5,825 to 527,962, the lowest level since July 29 and 48 per cent lower than the September 18 peak of 1,017,754. Overall, India added 50,210 confirmed cases in a day, the most in 12 days, to take the tally to 8,364,086.
 
While 55,331 new cured cases in a day pushed the country’s recovered cases to 7,711,809, or 92.20 per cent of all confirmed cases so far, with 514 fatalities reported on Thursday, India’s Covid-19 death toll reached 124315 (1.49 per cent