Data story: India records 18,930 new Covid cases, 35 deaths on Thursday

India reported an increase of 4,245 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 119,457. The country is twenty-fourth among the most affected countries globally by active cases. On July 7, it added 18,930 cases to take its total caseload to 43,566,739. And, with 35 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 525,305, or 1.21 per cent of total confirmed infections.

With 1,144,489 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on July 6, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 1,983,318,772. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 42,921,977 — or 98.53 per cent of the total caseload — with 14,650 new cured cases being reported on July 7.

• India has added 114,575 cases in the past 7 days.
• India has so far administered 1,983,318,772 vaccine doses.
• The count of active cases across India on July 7 saw an increase of 4,245, compared with 737 on July 6.
• With 14,650 new daily recoveries, India’s recovery rate stands at 98.53%, while the fatality rate remained unchanged at 1.21%.
• India’s new daily closed cases stand at 14,685 — 35 deaths and 14,650 recoveries.
• India on July 6 conducted 438,005 coronavirus tests to take the total count of tests conducted so far in the country to 865,343,689.
• The five most affected states by total cases are Maharashtra (7993051), Kerala (6659988), Karnataka (3975000), Tamil Nadu (3490834), and Andhra Pradesh (2322994).
• The five states with the most active cases are Kerala (30169), Maharashtra (19981), Tamil Nadu (17717), West Bengal (14270), and Karnataka (6481).
• The five states with the highest fatalities are Maharashtra (147956), Kerala (70073), Karnataka (40122), Tamil Nadu (38027), and Delhi (26276).