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India has registered 15,981 fresh cases of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours. With this the nationwide tally of Covid-19 cases has pushed to 34,053,573. With 166 fresh fatalities the death toll has climbed to 4,51,980, according to the data updated by the Union ministry of health and family welfare on Saturday.  

The active cases comprise 0.60% of the total infections which is the lowest since March 2020, while the national Covid-19 recovery rate was recorded at 98.07%, the highest since March 2020, said the ministry.

The daily rise in new coronavirus infections has been below 30,000 for 21 straight days and less than 50,000 daily new cases have been reported for 110 consecutive days now. 

As per ICMR, total number of samples tested up to 15th October is 58,98,35,258 including 9,23,003 samples tested yesterday.