DATA STORY: Covid active cases top 13 mn globally; only 3.9% of those are in India

With 53920 new daily recoveries, India's recovery rate has risen to 92.41%; the fatality rate remains unchanged at 1.49%

The count of active coronavirus cases across the world went past the 13-million mark on Saturday, even as India continued to report a daily net decline in the number of active cases in the country. Now, India’s share of the active cases worldwide has shrunk to 3.92 per cent – 516,632 in total, out of 13,164,232 globally. Overall, the country added 50,356 confirmed cases in a day on Saturday to take the tally to 8462080.
 
While 53,920 new cured cases in a day pushed the country’s recovered cases to 7,819,886, or 92.41 per cent of all confirmed cases so