<span style="color: #222222;">The Union Government today said, a total of 4, 24, 433 people affected by Coronavirus have recovered in the country so far.<br />''<br />''In the past 24 hours, 15,350 people recovered from COVID-19 and with this, the recovery rate reached 60.86 per cent.<br />''<br />''The Health and Family Welfare Ministry said, a total of 24, 248 new cases of COVID-19 were reported in the country during the last 24 hours taking the total number of cases to 6,97, 413.<br />''<br />''In a single day, 425 deaths were reported taking the nationwide toll to 19,693. Presently, the total number of active Corona cases in the country is 2,53,287.<br />''<br />''Meanwhile, Indian Council of Medical Research, ICMR said a total of 3,46, 459 samples were tested for Coronavirus by various laboratories in the country in the last 24 hours.<br />''<br />''So far 1,01,35, 525 tests have been conducted.<br />''<br />''ICMR is continuously scaling up its testing facilities for COVID-19 by giving approval to government and private laboratories.<br />''<br />''As of now, total 1,105 laboratories across India have been given approval to conduct the test for COVID-19 including 788 government laboratories and 317 private laboratory chains.</span>