DATA STORY: India adds 58,419 cases, lowest daily-spike in 81 days

India has so far administered 268,960,399 vaccine doses. That is 903.38 per cent of its total caseload, and 19.3 per cent of its population

India on Sunday reported a net reduction of 30,776 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 729,243. India’s share of global active coronavirus cases now stands at 6.29 per cent (one in 14). The country is second among the most affected countries by active cases. On Saturday, it added 58,419 cases to take its total caseload to 29,881,965. And, with 1,576 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 386,713, or 1.29 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 
With 3,810,554 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on Saturday, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 276,693,572.