Data story: India logs 2,710 new Covid cases; death toll at 524,539

India reported an increase of 400 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 15,814. The country is fifty-sixth among the most affected countries by active cases. On May 27, it added 2,710 cases to take its total caseload to 43,147,530. And, with 14 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 524,539, or 1.22 per cent of total confirmed infections.

With 1,441,072 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on May 26, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 1,929,774,973. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 42,607,177 — or 98.74 per cent of total caseload — with 2,296 new cured cases being reported on May 27.

• India has added 15,708 cases in the past 7 days.
• India has so far administered 1,929,774,973 vaccine doses.
• The count of active cases across India on May 27 increased by 400, compared with 443 on May 26.
• With 2,296 new daily recoveries, India’s recovery rate stands at 98.74%, while fatality rate remained unchanged at 1.22%.
• India’s new daily closed cases stand at 2,310 — 14 deaths and 2,296 recoveries.
• The five most affected states by total cases are Maharashtra (7,884,329), Kerala (6,553,067), Karnataka (3,951,131), Tamil Nadu (3,455,099), and Andhra Pradesh (2,319,900).
• The five states with most active cases are Kerala (4,512),  Maharashtra (2,361), Karnataka (1,777), Delhi (1,661), and Haryana (1,106).
• The five states with highest fatalities are Maharashtra (1,47,858), Kerala (69,655), Karnataka (40,106), Tamil Nadu (38,025), and Delhi (26,208).