DATA STORY: India logs 58,097 cases, biggest single-day spike since June 20

India has so far administered 1,477,208,846 vaccine doses. That is 4218.38 per cent of its total caseload, and 105.6 per cent of its population

India on Wednesday reported a net increase of 42,174 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 214,004. India’s share of global active coronavirus cases now stands at 0.63 per cent (one in 159). The country is twenty-third among the most affected countries by active cases. On Tuesday, it added 58,097 cases to take its total caseload to 35,018,358 from 34,960,261 — an increase of 0.17%. And, with 534 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 482,551, or 1.38 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 
With 9,643,238 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on Tuesday, India’s total count