Data story: India logs 27,409 new cases; test positivity rate drops to 2.2%

India has so far administered 1,734,262,440 vaccine doses. That is 4062.17 per cent of its total caseload, and 123.78 per cent of its population

India on Tuesday reported a net decrease of 55,755 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 423,127. India’s share of global active coronavirus cases now stands at 0.59 per cent (one in 169). The country is twenty-fourth among the most affected countries by active cases. On Monday, it added 27,409 cases to take its total caseload to 42,692,943 from 42,665,534 — an increase of 0.06%. And, with 347 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 509,358, or 1.19 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 
With 4,468,365 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on Monday, India’s total count