Data story: India logs 2,338 new Covid cases; death toll at 524,630

India reported an increase of 185 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 17, 883. The country is fifty-sixth among the most affected countries by active cases. On May 31, it added 2,338 cases to take its total caseload to 43,158,087. And, with 19 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 524,630, or 1.22 per cent of total confirmed infections.

With 1,333,064 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on May 30, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 1,934,519,805. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 42,615,574 — or 98.75 per cent of total caseload — with 2,134 new cured cases being reported on May 31.

• India has added 18,019 cases in the past 7 days.
• India has so far administered 1,934,519,805 vaccine doses.
• The count of active cases across India on May 31 increased by 185, compared with 611 on May 30.
• With 2,134 new daily recoveries, India’s recovery rate stands at 98.75%, while fatality rate remained unchanged at 1.22%.
• India’s new daily closed cases stand at 2,153 — 19 deaths and 2,134 recoveries.
• India on May 30 conducted 363,883 coronavirus tests to take the total count of tests conducted so far in the country to 850,441,292.
• The five most affected states by total cases are Maharashtra (7886375), Kerala (6556330), Karnataka (3951905), Tamil Nadu (3455376), and Andhra Pradesh (2319922).
• The five states with most active cases are Kerala (5498), Maharashtra (3131), Karnataka (2106), Delhi (1486), and Haryana (1044).
• The five states with highest fatalities are Maharashtra (147859), Kerala (69740), Karnataka (40106), Tamil Nadu (38025), and Delhi (26209).