Data story: India logs 16,678 new Covid cases; 120,765 infections in 7 days

India reported an increase of 2,023 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 130,713. The country is twenty-fourth among the most affected countries globally by active cases. On July 11, it added 16,678 cases to take its total caseload to 43,639,329. And, with 26 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 525,454, or 1.21 per cent of total confirmed infections.

With 1,144,145 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on July 10, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 1,988,877,537. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 42,983,162 — or 98.50 per cent of the total caseload — with 14,629 new cured cases being reported on July 11.

• India has added 120,765 cases in the past 7 days.
• India has so far administered 1,988,877,537 vaccine doses.
• The count of active cases across India on July 11 saw an increase of 2,023, compared with 3,662 on July 10.
• With 14,629 new daily recoveries, India’s recovery rate stands at 98.50%, while the fatality rate remained unchanged at 1.20%.
• India’s new daily closed cases stand at 14,655 — 26 deaths and 14,629 recoveries.
• India on July 10 conducted 278,266 coronavirus tests to take the total count of tests conducted so far in the country to 866,888,980.
• The five most affected states by total cases are Maharashtra (8004024), Kerala (6673029), Karnataka (3979021), Tamil Nadu (3501529), and Andhra Pradesh (2324260).
• The five states with the most active cases are Kerala (27643), West Bengal (23264), Tamil Nadu (18819), Maharashtra (18369), and Karnataka (6898).
• The five states with the highest fatalities are Maharashtra (147976), Kerala (70150), Karnataka (40123), Tamil Nadu (38028), and Delhi (26284).