Data story: India logs 34,113 new cases; active tally drops below 500,000

India has so far administered 1,729,587,490 vaccine doses. That is 4053.82 per cent of its total caseload, and 123.44 per cent of its population

India on Monday reported a net decrease of 58,163 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 478,882. India’s share of global active coronavirus cases now stands at 0.65 per cent (one in 154). The country is twenty-third among the most affected countries by active cases. On Sunday, it added 34,113 cases to take its total caseload to 42,665,534 from 42,631,421 — an increase of 0.08%. And, with 346 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 509,011, or 1.19 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 
With 1,166,993 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on Saturday, India’s total count