Data story: India logs 71,365 new cases; active cases drop below 900,000

India has so far administered 1,708,706,705 vaccine doses. That is 4028.92 per cent of its total caseload, and 121.95 per cent of its population

India on Wednesday reported a net decrease of 102,063 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 892,828. India’s share of global active coronavirus cases now stands at 1.2 per cent (one in 83). The country is twelfth among the most affected countries by active cases. On Tuesday, it added 71,365 cases to take its total caseload to 42,410,976 from 42,339,611 — an increase of 0.17%. And, with 1,217 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 505,279, or 1.19 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 
With 5,361,099 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on Tuesday, India’s total count