DATA STORY: India adds 8,603 new cases; death toll rises to 470,530

India has so far administered 1,265,344,975 vaccine doses. That is 3654.49 per cent of its total caseload, and 90.45 per cent of its population

India on Saturday reported a net decrease of 2 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 99,974. India’s share of global active coronavirus cases now stands at 0.48 per cent (one in 208). The country is twenty-sixth among the most affected countries by active cases. On Thursday, it added 9,216 cases to take its total caseload to 34,624,360 from 34,615,757 — an increase of 0.1%. And, with 415 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 470,530, or 1.36 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 
With 7,367,230 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on Friday, India’s total count