Coronavirus live news: Russia’s daily caseload passes 10,000 for first time since May

Russia’s coronavirus crisis centre reports 10,499 new infections, biggest daily tally since 15 May; cases continue to surge across Europe

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The UK’s prime minister, Boris Johnson, has offered advice to US president Donald Trump following his positive Covid-19 test result.

Johnson was admitted to intensive care at a hospital in London in early April to receive oxygen treatment after he contracted the virus.

I’m sure that President Trump is going to be fine, he has got the best possible care.

The most important thing to do is follow his doctors’ advice.

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Health journalist and former neuroscientist, David Cox, has written about the evidence of lingering heart damage after initial symptoms of Covid-19 have dissipated.

The first indications the virus could affect the heart came from the original centres of the outbreak. Peter Liu, chief scientific officer at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, recalls receiving emails first from doctors in Wuhan during January and February, and then those in Italy as the pandemic reached Europe. They described a number of patients in intensive care wards with myocarditis or inflammation of the heart muscle.

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