Coronavirus live news: big rise in infections in Italy; Tehran and Madrid impose new lockdown measures

Ukraine ’s former president hospitalised after contracting Covid; Joe Biden urges US public to be patriotic and wear masksUS live blog: Trump ’s hospital stay for Covid fuels concernsUK hospitals ‘already using Trump antibody drug’Twitter faces backlash over abuse policy in wake of Trump illnessUK Covid testing cutoff quietly extended to eight daysBiden: Trump ’s test ‘bracing reminder’ to ‘take this virus seriously’5.58pmBSTUkraine ’s former presidentPetro Poroshenko has been hospitalised in Kiev with double pneumonia, days after he tested positive for Covid-19, AFP reports.“Petro Oleksiyovych [Poroshenko] was hospitalised,”, his wife,Maryna Poroshenko, said in a video on Facebook. “Despite the fact that my husband has double pneumonia, he is strong-willed and is demonstrating this in the fight against the disease.”5.41pmBSTThis from Politico ’sGabby Orr:So less than 5 minutes after the president ’s doctor said he has been doing just fine, Trump’s own chief of staff appears to give the pool an entirely different account — off the record.https://t.co/fTY2raDFtaContinue reading...
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