DATA STORY: India logs 8,865 cases; lowest single-day spike since Feb 2

India has so far administered 1,129,784,045 vaccine doses. That is 3278.88 per cent of its total caseload, and 80.79 per cent of its population

India on Tuesday reported a net reduction of 3,303 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 130,793. India’s share of global active coronavirus cases now stands at 0.68 per cent (one in 147). The country is eighteenth among the most affected countries by active cases. On Sunday, it added 8,865 cases to take its total caseload to 34,456,401 from 34,447,536 — an increase of 0.1%. And, with 197 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 463,852, or 1.35 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 
With 5,975,469 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on Monday, India’s total count