Data story: India logs 4,518 new Covid cases; death toll at 524,701

India on June 6 reported an increase of 1,730 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 25,782. The country is fifty-first among the most affected countries by active cases. On June 6, it added 4,518 cases, taking its total caseload to 43,181,335. And, with 9 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 524,701, or 1.22 per cent of total confirmed infections.

With 257,187 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on June 5, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 1,941,287,000. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 42,630,852 — or 98.73 per cent of total caseload — with 2,779 new cured cases being reported on June 5.

• India has added 25,586 cases in the past 7 days.
• India has so far administered 1,941,287,000 vaccine doses.
• The count of active cases across India on June 6 increased by1,730, compared with 1,636 on June 5.
• With 2,779 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 2,788 — 9 deaths and 2,779 recoveries.
• India on June 5 conducted 278,059 coronavirus tests to take the total count of tests conducted so far in the country to 852,901,546.
• The five most affected states by total cases are Maharashtra (7893197), Kerala (6563910), Karnataka (3953359), Tamil Nadu (3456083), and Andhra Pradesh (2319981).
• The five states with most active cases are Kerala (8835), Maharashtra (6767), Karnataka (2414), Delhi (1422), and Haryana (913).
• The five states with highest fatalities are Maharashtra (147866), Kerala (69790), Karnataka (40108), Tamil Nadu (38025), and Delhi (26212).