Data story: India logs 67,597 cases; active cases drop below 1-mn mark

India has so far administered 1,702,172,615 vaccine doses. That is 4020.28 per cent of its total caseload, and 121.49 per cent of its population

India on Tuesday reported a net decrease of 114,047 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 994,891. India’s share of global active coronavirus cases now stands at 1.33 per cent (one in 75). The country is eleventh among the most affected countries by active cases. On Monday, it added 67,597 cases to take its total caseload to 42,339,611 from 42,272,014 — an increase of 0.16%. And, with 1,188 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 504,062, or 1.19 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 
With 5,578,297 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on Monday, India’s total count