Data story: India logs 20,557 cases, 2,603 deaths as Punjab clears backlog

India reported a decrease of 563 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 143,091. The country is twenty-seventh among the most affected countries globally by active cases. On July 20, it added 20,557 cases to take its total caseload to 43,803,619. And, with 2,603 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 528,388, or 1.20 per cent of total confirmed infections.

With 2,604,797 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on July 19, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 2,006,124,684. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 43,132,140 — or 98.47 per cent of the total caseload — with 18,517 new cured cases being reported on July 20.

• India has added 133,769 cases in the past 7 days.
• India has so far administered 2,006,124,684 vaccine doses.
• The count of active cases across India on July 20 saw a decrease of 563, compared with 610 on July 19.
• With 18,517 new daily recoveries, India’s recovery rate stands at 98.47%, while the fatality rate remained unchanged at 1.21%.
• India’s new daily closed cases stand at 21,120 — 2,603 deaths and 18,517 recoveries.
• India on July 19 conducted 498,034 coronavirus tests to take the total count of tests conducted so far in the country to 870,653,486.
• The five most affected states by total cases are Maharashtra (8022781), Kerala (6697013), Karnataka (3988579), Tamil Nadu (3522142), and Andhra Pradesh (2327662).
• The five states with the most active cases are West Bengal (28969), Kerala (22592), Tamil Nadu (16829), Maharashtra (14789), and Karnataka (7617).
• The five states with the highest fatalities are Maharashtra (148032), Kerala (70295), Karnataka (40131), Tamil Nadu (38030), and Delhi (26296).