Data story: India logs 100,806 net active cases; positivity rate at 9.7%

India has so far administered 1,506,192,903 vaccine doses. That is 4258.58 per cent of its total caseload, and 107.67 per cent of its population

India on Saturday reported a net increase of 100,806 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 472,169. India’s share of global active coronavirus cases now stands at 1.18 per cent (one in 85). The country is twelfth among the most affected countries by active cases. On Friday, it added 141,986 cases to take its total caseload to 35,368,372 from 35,226,386 — an increase of 0.4%. And, with 285 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 483,463, or 1.37 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 
With 9,059,360 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on Friday, India’s total count