DATA STORY: India logs 8,488 cases in 24 hours, lowest in 538 days

India has so far administered 1,168,728,385 vaccine doses. That is 3385.76 per cent of its total caseload, and 83.55 per cent of its population

India on Monday reported a net reduction of 4,271 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 118,443. India’s share of global active coronavirus cases now stands at 0.6 per cent (one in 167). The country is eighteenth among the most affected countries by active cases. On Monday, it added 8,488 cases to take its total caseload to 34,518,901 from 34,510,413 — an increase of 0.1%. And, with 249 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 465,911, or 1.35 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 
With 3,299,337 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on Sunday, India’s total count