DATA STORY: India logs 8,318 cases; global active tally crosses 20 mn-mark

India has so far administered 1,210,658,262 vaccine doses. That is 3502.68 per cent of its total caseload, and 86.54 per cent of its population

India on Saturday reported a net reduction of 3,114 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 107,019. India’s share of global active coronavirus cases now stands at 0.54 per cent (one in 183). The country is twenty-fourth among the most affected countries by active cases. On Friday, it added 8,318 cases to take its total caseload to 34,563,749 from 34,555,431 — an increase of 0.1%. And, with 465 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 467,933, or 1.35 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 
With 7,358,017 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on Friday, India’s total count