Data story: India logs 20,139 cases; biggest single-day spike since Feb 19

India reported an increase of 3,619 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 136,076. The country is twenty-fifth among the most affected countries globally by active cases. On July 14, it added 20,139 cases to take its total caseload to 43,689,989. And, with 38 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 525,557, or 1.20 per cent of total confirmed infections.

With 1,344,714 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on July 13, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 1,99,27,27,559. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 43028356 — or 98.49 per cent of the total caseload — with 16,482 new cured cases being reported on July 14.

• India has added 123,250 cases in the past 7 days.
• India has so far administered 1,992,727,559 vaccine doses.
• The count of active cases across India on July 14 saw an increase of 3,619, compared with 1,414 on July 13.
• With 16,482 new daily recoveries, India’s recovery rate stands at 98.49%, while the fatality rate remained unchanged at 1.20%.
• India’s new daily closed cases stand at 16,520 — 38 deaths and 16,482 recoveries.
• India on July 13 conducted 394,774 coronavirus tests to take the total count of tests conducted so far in the country to 868,164,348.
• The five most affected states by total cases are Maharashtra (8010223), Kerala (6681317), Karnataka (3981816), Tamil Nadu (3508526), and Andhra Pradesh (2325203).
• The five states with the most active cases are West Bengal (27496), Kerala (26451), Tamil Nadu (18282), Maharashtra (16922), and Karnataka (6603).
• The five states with the highest fatalities are Maharashtra (148001), Kerala (70186), Karnataka (40125), Tamil Nadu (38028), and Delhi (26288).