Data story: India logs 18,815 new Covid cases, death toll at 525,343

India reported an increase of 2,878 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 122,335. The country is twenty-fourth among the most affected countries globally by active cases. On July 8, it added 18,815 cases to take its total caseload to 43,585,554. And, with 38 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 525,343, or 1.21 per cent of total confirmed infections.

With 1,762,441 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on July 7, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 1,985,177,962. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 42,937,876 — or 98.51 per cent of the total caseload — with 15,899 new cured cases being reported on July 8.

• India has added 116,320 cases in the past 7 days.
• India has so far administered 1,985,177,962 vaccine doses.
• The count of active cases across India on July 7 saw an increase of 2,878, compared with 4,245 on July 7.
• With 15,899 new daily recoveries, India’s recovery rate stands at 98.51%, while the fatality rate remained unchanged at 1.21%.
• India’s new daily closed cases stand at 15,937— 38 deaths and 15,899 recoveries.
• India on July 7 conducted 379,470 coronavirus tests to take the total count of tests conducted so far in the country to 865,723,159.
• The five most affected states by total cases are Maharashtra (7995729), Kerala (6663649), Karnataka (3976053), Tamil Nadu (3493599), and Andhra Pradesh (2323316).
• The five states with the most active cases are Kerala (29772), Maharashtra (19413), Tamil Nadu (18378), West Bengal (16546), and Karnataka (6454).
• The five states with the highest fatalities are Maharashtra (147964), Kerala (70089), Karnataka (40122), Tamil Nadu (38028), and Delhi (26277).