DATA STORY: India adds 62,223 cases; active cases drop to 865,432

India has so far administered 261,972,014 vaccine doses. That is 884.05 per cent of its total caseload, and 18.8 per cent of its population

India on Wednesday reported a net reduction of 47,946 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 865,432. India’s share of global active coronavirus cases now stands at 7.39 per cent (one in 13). The country is second among the most affected countries by active cases. On Tuesday, it added 62,224 cases to take its total caseload to 29,633,105. And, with 2,542 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 379,573, or 1.28 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 
With 2,800,458 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on Tuesday, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 261,972,014.