DATA STORY: Andhra Pradesh administers 1,439,540 Covid doses in a day

India has so far administered 280,036,898 vaccine doses. That is 935.5 per cent of its total caseload, and 20.1 per cent of its population

India on Monday reported a net reduction of 26,356 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 702,887. India’s share of global active coronavirus cases now stands at 6.08 per cent (one in 16). The country is second among the most affected countries by active cases. On Sunday, it added 53,256 cases to take its total caseload to 29,935,221. And, with 1,422 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 388,135, or 1.29 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 
With 3,039,996 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on Sunday, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 276,693,572.