Data story: India logs 17,070 new Covid cases, death toll reaches 525,139

India reported an increase of 2,634 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 107,189. The country is twenty-fourth among the most affected countries globally by active cases. On July 1, it added 17,070 cases to take its total caseload to 43,469,234. And, with 23 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 525,139, or 1.21 per cent of total confirmed infections.

With 1,167,503 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on June 30, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 1,977,471,041. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 42,836,906 — or 98.55 per cent of the total caseload — with 14,413 new cured cases being reported on July 1.

• India has added 106,940 cases in the past 7 days.
• India has so far administered 1,977,471,041 vaccine doses.
• The count of active cases across India on July 1 saw an increase of 2,634, compared with 4,953 on June 30.
• With 14,413 new daily recoveries, India’s recovery rate stands at 98.55%, while the fatality rate remained unchanged at 1.21%.
• India’s new daily closed cases stand at 14,436 — 23 deaths and 14,413 recoveries.
• India on June 30 conducted 502,150 coronavirus tests to take the total count of tests conducted so far in the country to 862,877,639.
• The five most affected states by total cases are Maharashtra (7976114), Kerala (6638805), Karnataka (3969411), Tamil Nadu (3475185), and Andhra Pradesh (2321573).
• The five states with the most active cases are Kerala (29504), Maharashtra (24940), Tamil Nadu (11094), West Bengal (6994), and Karnataka (5896).
• The five states with the highest fatalities are Maharashtra (147925), Kerala (70008), Karnataka (40117), Tamil Nadu (38026), and Delhi (26261).