DATA STORY: India logs 5,326 new cases; death toll rises to 478,007

India has so far administered 1,383,478,181 vaccine doses. That is 3980.98 per cent of its total caseload, and 98.9 per cent of its population

India on Tuesday reported a net decrease of 3,170 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 79,097. India’s share of global active coronavirus cases now stands at 0.34 per cent (one in 294). The country is twenty-sixth among the most affected countries by active cases. On Monday, it added 5,326 cases to take its total caseload to 34,752,164 from 34,746,838 — an increase of 0.1%. And, with 453 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 478,007, or 1.38 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 
With 6,456,911 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on Monday, India’s total count