Data story: India logs 3,714 new Covid cases; death toll at 524,708

India on June 7 reported an increase of 1,194 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 26,976. The country is fourty-seventh among the most affected countries by active cases. On June 7, it added 3,714 cases, taking its total caseload to 43,185,049. And, with 7 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 524,708, or 1.22 per cent of total confirmed infections.

With 1,396,169 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on June 6, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 1,942,716,543. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 42,633,365 — or 98.73 per cent of total caseload — with 2,513 new cured cases being reported on June 6.

• India has added 26,962 cases in the past 7 days.
• India has so far administered 1,942,716,543vaccine doses.
• The count of active cases across India on June 7 increased by 1,194, compared with 1,730 on June 6.
• With 2,513 new daily recoveries, India’s recovery rate stands at 98.73%, while fatality rate remained unchanged at 1.22%.
• India’s new daily closed cases stand at 2,520 — 7 deaths and 2,513 recoveries.
• India on June 6 conducted 307,716 coronavirus tests to take the total count of tests conducted so far in the country to 853,209,262.
• The five most affected states by total cases are Maharashtra (7894233), Kerala (6565293), Karnataka (3953589), Tamil Nadu (3456173), and Andhra Pradesh (2319988).
• The five states with most active cases are Kerala (9405), Maharashtra (7429), Karnataka (2441), Delhi (1349), and Uttar Pradesh (968).
• The five states with highest fatalities are Maharashtra (147866), Kerala (69796), Karnataka (40108), Tamil Nadu (38025), and Delhi (26212).