India on October 5 reported a decrease of 1,280 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 33,318. The country is thirty-ninth among the most affected countries globally by active cases. On October 5, it added 2,468 cases to take its total caseload to 44,601,934. And, with 17 new fatalities, including nine more reconciled by Kerala, its Covid-19 death toll reached 528,733, or 1.19 per cent of total confirmed infections.
With 290,216 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on October 4, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 2,188,340,816. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India,

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