DATA STORY: India reports 39,796 new cases; growth rate steady at 0.1%

India has so far administered 352,892,046 vaccine doses. That is 1153.79 per cent of its total caseload, and 25.32 per cent of its population

India on Monday reported a net reduction of 3,279 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 482,071. India’s share of global active coronavirus cases now stands at 4.14 per cent (one in 24). The country is third among the most affected countries by active cases. On Sunday, it added 39,796 cases to take its total caseload to 30,585,229 from 30,545,433 — an increase of 0.1%. And, with 723 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 402,728, or 1.31 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 
The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 29,700,430 – or