Data story: India logs 1,761 new cases; death toll rises to 516,479

India has so far administered 1,812,111,675 vaccine doses. That is 4213.44 per cent of its total caseload, and 129.19 per cent of its population

India on Sunday reported a net decrease of 1,562 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 26,240. India’s share of global active coronavirus cases now stands at 0.04 per cent (one in 2,500). The country is seventy-second among the most affected countries by active cases. On Saturday, it added 1,761 cases to take its total caseload to 43,007,841 from 43,006,080 — an increase of 0.01%. And, with 127 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 516,479, or 1.2 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 
With 1,534,444 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on Saturday, India’s total count