DATA STORY: India logs 15,786 cases; vaccination crosses 1 bn milestone

India has so far administered 1,005,904,580 vaccine doses. That is 2946.13 per cent of its total caseload, and 72 per cent of its population

India on Friday reported a net reduction of 3,086 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 175,745. India’s share of global active coronavirus cases now stands at 0.98 per cent (one in 102). The country is tenth among the most affected countries by active cases. On Thursday, it added 15,786 cases to take its total caseload to 34,143,236 from 34,127,450 — an increase of 0.1%. And, with 231 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 453,042, or 1.33 per cent of total confirmed infections.

With 6,127,277 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on Thursday, India’s total count of vaccine