India's COVID-19 tally of cases climbed to 73.07 lakh with 67,708 new cases in a day, while 63,83,441 people have recuperated so far pushing the national recovery rate to 87.35 per cent on Thursday, according to the Union Health Ministry data. The COVID-19 case fatality rate has further declined to 1.52 per cent from 1.56 per cent on October 3.