DATA STORY: India adds 16,000 active cases in 3 days; global cases shoot up

India has so far administered 1,445,416,714 vaccine doses. That is 4148.87 per cent of its total caseload, and 103.33 per cent of its population

India on Friday reported a net increase of 8,959 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 91,361. India’s share of global active coronavirus cases now stands at 0.32 per cent (one in 313). The country is thirty-third among the most affected countries by active cases. On Thursday, it added 16,764 cases to take its total caseload to 34,838,804 from 34,822,040 — an increase of 0.1%. And, with 220 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 481,080, or 1.38 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 
With 6,665,290 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on Thursday, India’s total count