Data story: India logs 18,313 new Covid cases, 57 deaths in 24 hours

India reported a decrease of 2,486 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 145,026. The country is twenty-ninth among the most affected countries globally by active cases. On July 27, it added 18,313 cases to take its total caseload to 43,938,764. And, with 57 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 526,167, or 1.20 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 

With 2,737,235 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on July 26, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 2,027,961,722. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 43,267,571 — or 98.47 per cent of the total caseload — with 20,742 new cured cases being reported on July 27.

• India has added 135,445 cases in the past 7 days.
• India has so far administered 2,027,961,722 vaccine doses.
• The count of active cases across India on July 27 saw a decrease of 2,486, compared with 3,365 on July 26.
• With 20,742 new daily recoveries, India’s recovery rate stands at 98.47%, while the fatality rate remained unchanged at 1.21%.
• India’s new daily closed cases stand at 20,799 — 57 deaths and 20,742 recoveries.
• India on July 26 conducted 425,337 coronavirus tests to take the total count of tests conducted so far in the country to 873,611,254.
• The five most affected states by total cases are Maharashtra (8037181), Kerala (6712280), Karnataka (3998142), Tamil Nadu (3536092), and Andhra Pradesh (2330404).
• The five states with the most active cases are West Bengal (21287), Kerala (17764), Tamil Nadu (14714), Maharashtra (14092), and Karnataka (8861).
• The five states with the highest fatalities are Maharashtra (148080), Kerala (70412), Karnataka (40134), Tamil Nadu (38032), and Delhi (26305).