India reported an increase of 4,226 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 76,700. On June 19, it added 12,781 cases to take its total caseload to 43,309,473. And, with 18 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 524,873, or 1.21 per cent of total confirmed infections.
With 280,136 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on June 19, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 1,961,866,707. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 42,707,900 — or 98.61 per cent of total caseload — with 8,537 new cured cases being reported on June