Monday 20 July 2020

Coronavirus live news: Trump backs face masks as 'patriotic', EU set to agree stimulus

Trump to resume daily briefings; deal expected on €750bn EU Covid-19 recovery plan; two Brazil ministers test positive; WHO warns over Africa spread. Follow latest updates

EU leaders shifted their positions on Monday evening towards reaching a historic agreement on the bloc’s long-term spending plans and a €750bn pandemic recovery fund following days of acrimonious debate at the longest leaders’ summit in two decades, write the Guardian’s Daniel Boffey and Jennifer Rankin.

A new “spirit of compromise” had been found, Emmanuel Macron said, despite the French president thumping the negotiating table at the Brussels event in frustration the previous evening and likening those thwarting his spending plans to the ill-fated British in previous budget negotiations.

Related: EU leaders set to seal deal on spending and €750bn Covid-19 recovery plans

Donald Trump’s tweet about it being “patriotic” to wear face masks, comes the week after he appointed a new head to his election campaign team.

We are United in our effort to defeat the Invisible China Virus, and many people say that it is Patriotic to wear a face mask when you can’t socially distance. There is nobody more Patriotic than me, your favorite President! pic.twitter.com/iQOd1whktN

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