DATA STORY: India adds 8,439 new cases, death toll rises to 473,952

India has so far administered 1,295,419,975 vaccine doses. That is 3737.84 per cent of its total caseload, and 92.6 per cent of its population

India on Wednesday reported a net decrease of 1,281 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 93,733. India’s share of global active coronavirus cases now stands at 0.44 per cent (one in 227). The country is twenty-sixth among the most affected countries by active cases. On Tuesday, it added 8,439 cases to take its total caseload to 34,656,822 from 34,648,383 — an increase of 0.1%. And, with 195 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 473,952, or 1.37 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 
With 7,362,000 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on Tuesday, India’s total count