Data story: India records 12,847 new cases; more than 65,000 infections in 7 days
India reported an increase of 4,848 active coronavirus cases to take its tally to 63,063. The country is twenty-eighth among the world’s worst-hit countries by active cases. On June 17, it added 12,847 cases to bring its total case count to 43,270,577. And, with 14 new deaths, its Covid-19 death toll reached 524,817, or 1.21% of the total. confirmed infections.
With an additional 1,527,365 doses of Covid-19 vaccine administered on June 16, the total number of vaccines in India has so far reached 1,958,403,471. The number of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile , reached 42,682,697 – or 98.64% of the total number of cases – with 7,985 new recovered cases reported on June 17.
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