DATA STORY: India sees highest single-day recovery, has added 12.5% of cases in 7 days

India now accounts for 13.83% of all active cases globally (one in every 7 active cases), and 8.88% of all deaths (one in every 11)

India on Friday reported its biggest single-day jump in cured coronavirus cases to take its count of recovered patients to 4,112,551, or 78.86 per cent of total cases. The country added 96,424 new cases to take its tally to 5,214,677. In the past seven days alone, it has added 652,263 cases, or 12.5 per cent of its total. With net addition of 7,778 active cases, total active cases have reached 1.017,754. And 1,174 fatalities in 24 hours have pushed the death toll to 84,372.
India is the second-most-affected country by active and total cases, and third by fatality. Here are