Data story: India logs 161,386 cases; test positivity rate dips to 9.3%

India has so far administered 1,672,942,707 vaccine doses. That is 4018.51 per cent of its total caseload, and 119.4 per cent of its population

 India on Wednesday reported a net decrease of 121,456 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 1,621,603. India’s share of global active coronavirus cases now stands at 2.18 per cent (one in 46). The country is sixth among the most affected countries by active cases. On Tuesday, it added 161,386 cases to take its total caseload to 41,630,885 from 41,469,499 — an increase of 0.39%. And, with 1,733 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 497,975, or 1.2 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 
With 5,742,659 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on Tuesday, India’s total count