Data story: India logs 18,257 new Covid cases, active tally at 128,690

India reported an increase of 3,662 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 128,690. The country is twenty-fifth among the most affected countries globally by active cases. On July 10, it added 18,257 cases to take its total caseload to 43,622,651. And, with 42 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 525,428, or 1.21 per cent of total confirmed infections.

With 1,021,164 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on July 9, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 1,987,659,299. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 42,968,533 — or 98.50 per cent of the total caseload — with 14,553 new cured cases being reported on July 10.

• India has added 120,222 cases in the past 7 days.
• India has so far administered 1,987,659,299 vaccine doses.
• The count of active cases across India on July 10 saw an increase of 3,662, compared with 2,693 on July 9.
• With 14,553 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 14,595 — 42 deaths and 14,553 recoveries.
• India on July 9 conducted 432,777 coronavirus tests to take the total count of tests conducted so far in the country to 866,610,714.
• The five most affected states by total cases are Maharashtra (8001433), Kerala (6670145), Karnataka (3978079), Tamil Nadu (3498992), and Andhra Pradesh (2323948).
• The five states with the most active cases are Kerala (28571), West Bengal (21159), Tamil Nadu (18842), Maharashtra (18672), and Karnataka (6693).
• The five states with the highest fatalities are Maharashtra (147976), Kerala (70132), Karnataka (40123), Tamil Nadu (38028), and Delhi (26282).