Data story: India logs 117,100 cases; positivity rate rises to 7.7%

India has so far administered 1,496,681,156 vaccine doses. That is 4248.75 per cent of its total caseload, and 106.99 per cent of its population

India on Friday reported a net increase of 85,962 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 371,363. India’s share of global active coronavirus cases now stands at 0.98 per cent (one in 109). The country is fourteenth among the most affected countries by active cases. On Thursday, it added 117,100 cases to take its total caseload to 35,226,386 from 35,109,286 — an increase of 0.33%. And, with 302 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 483,178, or 1.37 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 
With 9,447,056 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on Thursday, India’s total count