DATA STORY: India sees net reduction in active cases for 37th day straight

India has so far administered 268,960,399 vaccine doses. That is 903.38 per cent of its total caseload, and 19.3 per cent of its population

India on Saturday reported a net reduction of 38,637 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 760,019. India’s share of global active coronavirus cases now stands at 6.55 per cent (one in 14). The country is second among the most affected countries by active cases. On Friday, it added 60,753 cases to take its total caseload to 29,823,546. And, with 1,647 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 385,137, or 1.29 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 
With 3,300,085 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on Friday, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 272,388,783.