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DATA STORY: Active cases drop below 600,000-mark; Delta variant cases rise

India has so far administered 315,045,926 vaccine doses. That is 1043.78 per cent of its total caseload, and 22.61 per cent of its population

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India on Saturday reported a net reduction of 17,303 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 595,565. India’s share of global active coronavirus cases now stands at 5.21 per cent (one in 19). The country is third among the most affected countries by active cases. On Friday, it added 48,698 cases to take its total caseload to 30,183,143 from 30,134,445 — an increase of 0.2%. And, with 1,183 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 394,493, or 1.31 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 
With 6,119,169 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on Friday, India’s total count

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