Indian Health Ministry said the recovery rate of Covid-19 patients has jumped to 87.56 per cent, as the country's coronavirus case count reaches 7.37 million, Anadolu Agency reported.

"India's #COVID19 recovery rate improves to 87.56% as on October 16, 2020. Steady improvement in India's Covid-19 recovery rate since #lockdown initiation on March 25, 2020," said a government update on Twitter.