Data story: India logs 107,474 cases; test positivity rate drops to 7.4%

India has so far administered 1,694,626,697 vaccine doses. That is 4016.83 per cent of its total caseload, and 120.95 per cent of its population

India on Sunday reported a net decrease of 106,637 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 1,225,011. India’s share of global active coronavirus cases now stands at 1.63 per cent (one in 61). The country is tenth among the most affected countries by active cases. On Saturday, it added 107,474 cases to take its total caseload to 42,188,138 from 42,080,664 — an increase of 0.26%. And, with 865 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 501,979, or 1.19 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 
With 4,510,770 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on Saturday, India’s total count