DATA STORY: India logs 5,784 new cases; death toll rises to 475,888

India has so far administered 1,338,812,577 vaccine doses. That is 3857.84 per cent of its total caseload, and 95.7 per cent of its population

India on Tuesday reported a net decrease of 2,463 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 88,993. India’s share of global active coronavirus cases now stands at 0.4 per cent (one in 250). The country is twenty-sixth among the most affected countries by active cases. On Monday, it added 5,784 cases to take its total caseload to 34,703,644 from 34,697,860 — an increase of 0.1%. And, with 252 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 475,888, or 1.37 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 
With 6,698,601 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on Monday, India’s total count