Data story: India logs 127,952 new cases; test positivity rate drops to 8%

India has so far administered 1,689,817,199 vaccine doses. That is 4015.66 per cent of its total caseload, and 120.61 per cent of its population

India on Saturday reported a net decrease of 103,921 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 1,331,648. India’s share of global active coronavirus cases now stands at 1.78 per cent (one in 56). The country is tenth among the most affected countries by active cases. On Friday, it added 127,952 cases to take its total caseload to 42,080,664 from 41,952,712 — an increase of 0.3%. And, with 1,059 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 501,114, or 1.19 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 
With 4,753,081 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on Friday, India’s total count