DATA STORY: Global Covid tally tops 50 mn; India's active cases down 50% from peak

India on Saturday conducted 1,194,487 coronavirus tests, taking the total count of tests conducted so far in the country to 117,736,791. The test positivity rate recorded on Saturday was 3.8%

The total count of confirmed coronavirus cases across the world on Sunday went past the 50 million, of which number 8,507,754 are in India. The country continues to report daily net reduction in active cases. On Sunday the country’s count of active cases came down by 3,967 to 512,665, the lowest since July 29 and nearly 50 per cent lower than the September 18 peak of 1,017,754.
 
Now, India’s share of the active cases worldwide has shrunk to 3.81 per cent. While 49,082 new cured cases in a day pushed the country’s recovered cases to 7,868,968, or 92.49 per