Data story: India logs 2,119 new Covid cases; death toll at 528,953

India has so far administered 2,195,097,574 vaccine doses

India on October 21 reported a decrease of 473 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 25,037. The country is forty-third among the most affected countries globally by active cases. On October 21, it added 2,119 cases to take its total caseload to 44,638,636. And, with 10 new fatalities, including five more reconciled by Kerala, its Covid-19 death toll reached 528,953, or 1.19 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 

With 463,338 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on October 20, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 2,195,097,574. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India,