Data story: India records 10,725 new Covid cases, active tally at 94,047

India on August 25 reported a decrease of 2,395 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 94,047. The country is twenty-first among the most affected countries globally by active cases. On August 25, it added 10,725 cases to take its total caseload to 44,378,920. And, with 36 new fatalities, including five more reconciled by Kerala, its Covid-19 death toll reached 527,488, or 1.19 per cent of total confirmed infections.

With 2,350,665 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on August 24, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 2,108,234,347. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 43,757,385 — or 98.59 per cent of the total caseload — with 13,084 new cured cases being reported on August 25.

1. India has added 80,056 cases in the past 7 days.
2. India has so far administered 2,108,234,347 vaccine doses.
3. The count of active cases across India on August 25 saw a decrease of 2,395, compared with 64 on August 24.
4. With 13,084 new daily recoveries, India’s recovery rate stands at 98.60%, while the fatality rate at 1.19%.
5. India’s new daily closed cases stand at 13,120 — 36 deaths and 13,084 recoveries.
6. India on August 24 conducted 392,837 coronavirus tests to take the total count of tests conducted so far in the country to 883,916,723.
7. The five most affected states by total cases are Maharashtra (8089389), Kerala (6747371), Karnataka (4044819), Tamil Nadu (3565020), and Andhra Pradesh (2336266).
8. The five states with the most active cases are Punjab (16979), Maharashtra (12578), Karnataka (9775), Kerala (8237), and Tamil Nadu (5630).
9. The five states with the highest fatalities are Maharashtra (148208), Kerala (70728), Karnataka (40221), Tamil Nadu (38033), and Delhi (26442).