Vaccination drive picks up slowlyAFP looks at how the South Asian giant has tackled the pandemic:- What are the official figures? -India reported its first Covid-19 infection on January 30, 2020 and its first death in mid-March.The number of new daily cases peaked at just over 97,000 infections in September, with deaths averaging 1,000 a day that month.Deaths then started to decline.
On Tuesday, just 94 fatalities were reported, out of 8,635 fresh infections.India has one of the lowest case-fatality ratios among the top 20 worst-affected nations in the world.- How many have really been infected? -Experts say the number of people in India who have contracted the disease is probably much higher than the official figure.