DATA STORY: India's active cases drop below 1.5 mn; death up by 2,677

India has so far administered 231,322,417 vaccine doses. That is 802.96 per cent of its total caseload, and 16.61 per cent of its population

 India on Sunday reported a net reduction of 77,449 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 1,477,799. India’s share of global active coronavirus cases now stands at 11.24 per cent (one in 8). The country is second among the most affected countries by active cases. On Saturday, it added 114,460 cases to take its total caseload to 28,809,339. And, with 2,677 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 346,759, or 1.20 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 
With 3,353,539 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on Sunday, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 231,322,417.