Data story: India reports 795 new cases; death toll rises to 521,416

India has so far administered 1,848,733,081 vaccine doses. That is 4296.39 per cent of its total caseload, and 131.8 per cent of its population

India on Tuesday reported a net decrease of 543 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 12,054. India’s share of global active coronavirus cases now stands at 0.02 per cent (one in 5,000). The country is seventy-fifth among the most affected countries by active cases. On Monday, it added 795 cases to take its total caseload to 43,029,839 from 43,029,044 — an increase of 0.01%. And, with 58 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 521,416, or 1.21 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 
With 1,617,668 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on Monday, India’s total count