Data story: India logs 2,706 new Covid cases; death toll at 524,611

India reported an increase of 611 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 17,698. The country is fifty-sixth among the most affected countries by active cases. On May 30, it added 2,706 cases to take its total caseload to 43,155,749. And, with 25 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 524, 611, or 1.22 per cent of total confirmed infections.

With 228,823 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on May 29, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 1,933,157,352. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 42,613,440 — or 98.75 per cent of total caseload — with 2,070 new cured cases being reported on May 30.

• India has added 17,356 cases in the past 7 days.
• India has so far administered 1,933,157,352 vaccine doses.
• The count of active cases across India on May 30 increased by 611, compared with 779 on May 29.
• With 2,070 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 2,095— 25 deaths and 2,070 recoveries.
• India on May 29 conducted 278,267 coronavirus tests to take the total count of tests conducted so far in the country to 850,077,409

The five most affected states by total cases are Maharashtra (7885394), Kerala (6554669), Karnataka (3951498), Tamil Nadu (3455210), and Andhra Pradesh (2319914).

The five states with most active cases are Kerala (5071), Maharashtra (2772), Karnataka (1898), Delhi (1641), and Haryana (1166).

The five states with highest fatalities are Maharashtra (147858), Kerala (69700), Karnataka (40106), Tamil Nadu (38025), and Delhi (26208).