Biggest single-day spike, India’s Covid-19 cases rise to 72,330

With a daily increase of 72,330 in total cases, the most since October 11 last year, India’s tally of coronavirus cases has risen from 12,149,335 on Wednesday to 12,221,665 – an increase of 0.6%. Death toll has reached 162,927, with 459 fatalities in a day, the most since December 6. Now the fifth-most-affected country by active cases, fourth by fatality, third by total, and second by recovered cases, India has added 434,131 cases in the past 7 days.

India now accounts for 2.63% of all active cases globally (one in every 38 active cases), and 5.76% of all deaths (one in every 17 deaths).
India has so far vaccinated 65,117,896 people. That is 532.85 per cent of its total caseload, and 4.6843 per cent of its population.

Among Indian states, the top 5 in terms of number of vaccine shots administered are Maharashtra (10953174), Rajasthan (10474296), Uttar Pradesh (10052389), Gujarat (9653839), and West Bengal (9354384).

Among states with more than 10 million population, the top 5 in number of vaccine shots per one million population are Kerala (166962), Gujarat (151143), Rajasthan (129260), Delhi (122905), and Chhattisgarh (113803).

Backwards from here, the last 1 million cases for India have come in 24 days.

The count of active cases across India saw a net increase of 31,489 on Thursday, compared with 11,846 on Wednesday. States that have seen the biggest daily net increase in active cases are Maharashtra (15717), Chhattisgarh (3472), Karnataka (2707), Delhi (1409), and Madhya Pradesh (1062).

With 40,382 new daily recoveries, India’s recovery rate stands at 93.89%, while fatality rate has come down marginally to 1.34%.

The Indian states and UTs with the worst case fatality rates at present are Punjab (2.86%), Sikkim (2.17%), and Maharashtra (1.94%). The rate in as many as 15 is higher than the national average.

India’s new daily closed cases stand at 40,841 — 459 deaths and 40,382 recoveries. The share of deaths in total closed cases stands at 1.12%.

India’s 5-day moving average of daily rate of addition to total cases stands at 0.5%.
India’s doubling time for total cases stands at 116.8 days, and for deaths at 245.7 days.
Overall, five states with the biggest 24-hour jump in total cases are Maharashtra (39544), Chhattisgarh (4563), Karnataka (4225), Punjab (2944), and Kerala (2653).