Data story: India logs 44,877 new cases; death toll rises to 508,665

India has so far administered 1,728,149,447 vaccine doses. That is 4053.69 per cent of its total caseload, and 123.34 per cent of its population

India on Sunday reported a net decrease of 73,398 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 537,045. India’s share of global active coronavirus cases now stands at 0.73 per cent (one in 137). The country is twenty-second among the most affected countries by active cases. On Saturday, it added 44,877 cases to take its total caseload to 42,631,421 from 42,586,544 — an increase of 0.11%. And, with 684 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 508,665, or 1.19 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 
With 4,916,801 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on Saturday, India’s total count