Data story: India logs 5,921 new cases; smallest daily spike since December

India has so far administered 1,785,566,940 vaccine doses. That is 4156.59 per cent of its total caseload, and 127.3 per cent of its population

India on Saturday reported a net decrease of 6,019 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 63,878. India’s share of global active coronavirus cases now stands at 0.1 per cent (one in 1000). The country is sixty-fourth among the most affected countries by active cases. On Friday, it added 5,921 cases to take its total caseload to 42,957,477 from 42,951,556 — an increase of 0.01%. And, with 289 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 514,878, or 1.2 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 
With 2,462,562 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on Friday, India’s total count