Data story: India logs 67,084 new cases; death toll rises to 506,520

India has so far administered 1,712,819,947 vaccine doses. That is 4032.24 per cent of its total caseload, and 122.25 per cent of its population

India on Thursday reported a net decrease of 102,039 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 790,789. India’s share of global active coronavirus cases now stands at 1.07 per cent (one in 93). The country is sixteenth among the most affected countries by active cases. On Wednesday, it added 67,084 cases to take its total caseload to 42,478,060 from 42,410,976 — an increase of 0.16%. And, with 1,241 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 506,520, or 1.19 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 
With 4,644,382 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on Wednesday, India’s total count