India confirms 69,878 new infections - the fourth straight day above 60,000.
Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee, said he would shut down the United States to contain its coronavirus outbreak if experts recommended such a measure.
- Brazil's COVID-19 outbreak is stabilising and any reversal of the virus's rampant spread in the vast country would be "a success for the world", the World Health Organization said.
More than 23 million people have been diagnosed with COVID-19 around the world, and more than 14.7 million have recovered. At least 800,000 people have died, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.