India adds nearly 300,000 new Covid cases, reports 2,023 deaths

India on Wednesday reported a net increase of 125,561 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 2,157,538. India’s share of global active coronavirus cases now stands at 11.97 per cent (one in 8). The country is second among the most affected countries by active cases. On Wednesday, it added 295,041 cases to take its total caseload to 15,616,130. And, with 2,023 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 182,553, or 1.17 per cent of total confirmed infections.
With 2,990,197 more people getting Covid-19 vaccine shots on Tuesday, India’s total count of those inoculated reached 130,119,310. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 13,276,039 – or 85.01 per cent of total caseload – with 167,457 new cured cases being reported on Wednesday.