Data story: India logs 30,615 new cases; active tally drops below 400,000

India has so far administered 1,738,681,675 vaccine doses. That is 4069.6 per cent of its total caseload, and 124.09 per cent of its population

India on Wednesday reported a net decrease of 52,887 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 370,240. India’s share of global active coronavirus cases now stands at 0.52 per cent (one in 192). The country is twenty-sixth among the most affected countries by active cases. On Tuesday, it added 30,615 cases to take its total caseload to 42,723,558 from 42,692,943 — an increase of 0.07%. And, with 514 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 509,872, or 1.19 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 
With 4,154,476 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on Tuesday, India’s total count