DATA STORY: 6,990 cases added; daily test positivity rate drops to 0.7%

India has so far administered 1,232,502,767 vaccine doses. That is 3563.4 per cent of its total caseload, and 88.1 per cent of its population

India on Tuesday reported a net reduction of 3,316 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 100,543. India’s share of global active coronavirus cases now stands at 0.5 per cent (one in 200). The country is twenty-seventh among the most affected countries by active cases. On Monday, it added 6,990 cases to take its total caseload to 34,587,822 from 34,580,832 — an increase of 0.1%. And, with 190 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 468,980, or 1.36 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 
With 7,880,545 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on Monday, India’s total count