DATA STORY: India's active Covid case tally at lowest in 17 months

India has so far administered 1,120,103,225 vaccine doses. That is 3252.58 per cent of its total caseload, and 80.09 per cent of its population

India on Sunday reported a net reduction of 390 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 135,918. India’s share of global active coronavirus cases now stands at 0.71 per cent (one in 141). The country is eighteenth among the most affected countries by active cases. On Saturday, it added 11,271 cases to take its total caseload to 34,437,307 from 34,426,036 — an increase of 0.1%. And, with 285 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 463,530, or 1.35 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 
With 5,743,840 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on Saturday, India’s total count