DATA STORY: India logs 7,350 new cases; death toll rises to 475,636

India on Monday reported a net decrease of 825 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 91,456. India’s share of global active coronavirus cases now stands at 0.42 per cent (one in 238). The country is twenty-sixth among the most affected countries by active cases. On Sunday, it added 7,350 cases to take its total caseload to 34,697,860 from 34,690,510 — an increase of 0.1%. And, with 202 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 475,636, or 1.37 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 
With 1,910,917 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on Sunday, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 1,331,784,462. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 34,130,768 — or 98.37 per cent of total caseload — with 8,464 new cured cases being reported on Monday.
 

Now the twenty-sixth-most-affected country by active cases, third by deaths, second by total cases and recoveries, India has added 56,299 cases in the past 7 days.

India now accounts for 0.42% of all active cases globally (one in every 238 active cases), and 8.94% of all deaths (one in every 11 deaths).

India has so far administered 1,331,784,462 vaccine doses. That is 3838.23 per cent of its total caseload, and 95.2 per cent of its population.

Among Indian states, the top 5 in terms of number of vaccine shots administered are Uttar Pradesh (182160979), Maharashtra (128446330), West Bengal (101147284), Madhya Pradesh (96901962), and Bihar (91309735).

Among states with more than 10 million population, the top 5 in number of vaccine shots per one million population are Gujarat (1391245), Delhi (1345369), Kerala (1326842), Jammu and Kashmir (1317349), and Uttarakhand (1270653).

Backwards from here, the last 1 million cases for India have come in 76 days.

The count of active cases across India on Monday saw a net reduction of 825, compared with 966 on Sunday. States and UTs hat have seen the biggest daily net increase in active cases are Gujarat (24), Karnataka (22), Bihar (19), Assam (12), and Delhi (12).

With 7,973 new daily recoveries, India’s recovery rate stands at 98.37%, while fatality rate remained unchanged at 1.37%.

The Indian states and UTs with the worst case fatality rates at present are Punjab (2.75%), Nagaland (2.17%), and Uttarakhand (2.15%). The rate in as many as 14 is higher than the national average.

India’s new daily closed cases stand at 8,150 — 202 deaths and 7,973 recoveries. The share of deaths in total closed cases stands at 2.47%.

India’s 5-day moving average of daily rate of addition to total cases stands at 0.0%.

India’s doubling time for total cases stands at 3271.9 days, and for deaths at 1631.8 days.

Overall, five states with the biggest 24-hour jump in total cases are Kerala (3777), Maharashtra (704), Tamil Nadu (674), West Bengal (583), and Karnataka (330).

India on Sunday conducted 855,692 coronavirus tests to take the total count of tests conducted so far in the country to 656,672,451. The test positivity rate recorded was 0.9%.

Five states with the highest test positivity rate (TPR) – percentage of tested people turning out to be positive for Covid-19 infection (by cumulative data for tests and cases – are Dadra & Nagar Haveli-Daman & Diu (14.76%), Kerala (12.89%), Sikkim (11.55%), Goa (11.36%), and Maharashtra (9.93%).

Five states with the highest TPR by daily numbers for tests and cases added – are Kerala (6.3%), Sikkim (5.83%), Mizoram (2.99%), Goa (1.65%), and West Bengal (1.59%).

Among states and UTs with more than 10 million population, five that have carried out the highest number of tests (per million population) are Delhi (1684423), J&K (1333612), Kerala (1129094), Punjab (1066549), and Karnataka (808276).

The five most affected states by total cases are Maharashtra (6643883), Kerala (5194605), Karnataka (3000435), Tamil Nadu (2735389), and Andhra Pradesh (2074868).

Maharashtra, the most affected state overall, has reported 704 new cases to take its tally to 6643883.

Kerala, the second-most-affected state by total tally, has added 3777 cases to take its tally to 5194605.

Karnataka, the third-most-affected state, has reported 330 cases to take its tally to 3000435.

Tamil Nadu has added 674 cases to take its tally to 2735389.

Andhra Pradesh has seen its tally going up by 160 to 2074868.

Uttar Pradesh has added 16 cases to take its tally to 1710554.

Delhi has added 56 cases to take its tally to 1441718.