DATA STORY: India's active Covid cases have fallen by nearly 50,000 from peak in 5 days

The second-most-affected country by total cases and active cases, and third by death toll, India has added 625,651 cases in the past 7 days

Relief for India on the coronavirus front continued for a fifth straight day on Wednesday, with the count of active cases reducing by 7,484. The number has declined on a net basis for five days in a row, reducing cumulatively by 49,377 from the 1,017,754 peak seen on September 18 to 968,377 now. A jump of 89,746 in the number of cured cases, meanwhile, pushed recoveries in the country to 4,587,613, or 81.25 per cent all infections reported so far.
 
While a single-day increase of 83,347 in total cases took India’s overall tally to 5,646,010, its death toll went