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With the coronavirus pandemic battering altry incomes, many observers are warning that the stage is set for massive ballot fraud by well-resourced parties.

Health Minister Malladi Krishna Rao said that the fatality rate was 1.85 per cent while the recovery rate stood at 81.69 per cent.

Universities and schools across the country have been closed since March 16 when the Centre announced a countrywide classroom shutdown as part of measures to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus.

Of the new cases, 1,945 were reported from different quarantine centres while 1,381 people were found COVID- positive during contact tracing.

The umrah, the pilgrimage that can be undertaken at any time, usually attracts millions of Muslims from across the globe each year but it was suspended in March due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Saturday's case figure came a day after the country reached a grim milestone of more than 2,000 infections reported in a single-day since the pandemic started in the country earlier this year.

Claiming that the agitation against farm laws will die out on its own, the minister said, "Falsehood has limited life while truth lives forever."

As many as 17 health care workers and five workers of Border Roads Organisation (BRO) also contracted the infection.

Trump, 74, and First Lady Melania Trump, 50, tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday, a development that upended the Republican leader's election campaign just weeks before the presidential polls on November 3.

The Supreme Court (SC) on September 30 declined to postpone the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination scheduled for October 4.

A truck moving on the Waghbil flyover hit the bridge divider and overturned. Some heavy scrap cardboard bales loaded on it fell on a car passing below the flyover and crushed its roof.

Maharathy, who had tested positive for COVID-19 on September 14, was discharged from the hospital after recovery but was admitted again as his condition became critical.

He will address a public meeting and launch a signature campaign at Badhni Kalan, along with Punjab Chief Minister Captain (Retired) Amarinder Singh and other senior leaders of the State.

A Defence spokesperson said the naval power glider was on a routine training sortie and took off from INS Garuda. It crashed near Thoppumpady bridge close to the naval base at around 7 am.

However, White House physician Sean Conley has said the president is "not yet out of the woods".

The count also includes 55,09,967 cured and discharged or migrated cases and 1,01,782 deaths, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW).

According to the police, Srinivas and Swathi were going on an Activa when a lorry hit them near South India shopping mall at Madinaguda.

There was no report of any casualty on the Indian side in the shelling, a defence spokesperson said.

With an increase of 1,069 deaths reported on Saturday, the COVID-19 toll surpassed 1 lakh in India, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW).

The US is the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 7,379,614 and 209,335, respectively, according to the CSSE.