Data story: India logs 50,407 new cases; test positivity rate drops to 3.5%

India has so far administered 1,722,947,688 vaccine doses. That is 4045.75 per cent of its total caseload, and 122.97 per cent of its population

India on Saturday reported a net decrease of 87,359 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 610,443. India’s share of global active coronavirus cases now stands at .82 per cent (one in 122). The country is sixteenth among the most affected countries by active cases. On Friday, it added 50,407 cases to take its total caseload to 42,586,544 from 42,536,137 — an increase of 0.12%. And, with 804 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 507,981, or 1.19 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 
With 4,682,662 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on Friday, India’s total count