DATA STORY: India logs 7,189 new cases; death toll rises to 479,520

India has so far administered 1,410,126,404 vaccine doses. That is 4054.43 per cent of its total caseload, and 100.8 per cent of its population

India on Saturday reported a net reduction of 484 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 77,032. India’s share of global active coronavirus cases now stands at 0.32 per cent (one in 313). The country is twenty-ninth among the most affected countries by active cases. On Friday, it added 7,189 cases to take its total caseload to 34,779,815 from 34,772,626 — an increase of 0.1%. And, with 387 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 479,520, or 1.38 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 
With 6,609,113 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on Friday, India’s total count