Doctor says president not replicating virus, but no word on whether he has tested negative; Europe records 100,000 daily cases for first time. Follow latest updates
- Trump returns to public events with ‘law and order’ speech at White House
- Make masks compulsory in UK workplaces, say doctors
- Spain declares emergency in Madrid as Berlin emerges as hotspot
- UK workers to get two-thirds of wages if firms told to shut
- See all our coronavirus coverage
Mainland China reported 21 new confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus on 10 October, up from 15 a day earlier, the country’s national health authority said on Sunday.
All the new cases were imported infections involving travellers from overseas, the National Health Commission said in a statement.
The number of new asymptomatic cases, which China does not classify as confirmed, fell to 23 from 39 a day earlier. All of them were imported.
The total confirmed Covid-19 cases in mainland China stands at 85,557, while the death toll remained at 4,634.
In Australia, the ACT has confirmed no new coronavirus cases. From the statement sent by the ACT government:
There have been no new cases of COVID-19 recorded in the ACT in the past 24 hours, leaving the ACT’s total at 113. There are no active cases in the ACT.
A total of 110 cases have recovered from COVID-19 in the ACT.
Continue reading…
