Data story: India logs 3,993 cases; active tally drops below 50,000-mark

India has so far administered 1,791,341,295 vaccine doses. That is 4168.69 per cent of its total caseload, and 127.71 per cent of its population

India on Tuesday reported a net decrease of 4,170 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 49,948. India’s share of global active coronavirus cases now stands at 0.08 per cent (one in 1,250). The country is sixty-fourth among the most affected countries by active cases. On Monday, it added 3,993 cases to take its total caseload to 42,971,308 from 42,967,315 — an increase of 0.01%. And, with 108 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 515,210, or 1.2 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 
With 2,134,463 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on Monday, India’s total count