DATA STORY: Maharashtra, Gujarat, Delhi see steep spike in new cases

India has so far administered 1,431,535,641 vaccine doses. That is 4112.55 per cent of its total caseload, and 102.33 per cent of its population

India on Wednesday reported a net increase of 1,546 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 77,002. India’s share of global active coronavirus cases now stands at 0.3 per cent (one in 333). The country is thirty-third among the most affected countries by active cases. On Tuesday, it added 9,195 cases to take its total caseload to 34,808,886 from 34,799,691 — an increase of 0.1%. And, with 302 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 480,592, or 1.38 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 
With 6,461,321 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on Tuesday, India’s total count