Trump has tweeted out a video of him explaining that he’s headed to Walter Reed hospital, but reassuring Americans that he’s doing “very well.”

“We’re going to make sure that things work out,” he said.

The US president added the first lady is also “doing very well.”

The death toll in Brazil has reached a total of 145,388, compared with 144,680 yesterday, the country’s health ministry said.

Brazil has also registered 4,880,523 confirmed cases, up from 4,847,092 yesterday.

New York state’s daily count of coronavirus cases topped 1,500 for the first time since late May as the governor, Andrew Cuomo, warned local governments they will face fines if they do not enforce social distancing and mask rules.

Officials are increasingly concerned about virus flare-ups in parts of New York City and suburban Rockland and Orange counties.

Although an oft-cited measure of the virus’s spread the percentage of tests that come back positive is about 1.3% statewide, it is over 6% in a group of about 20 ZIP codes under scrutiny, Cuomo said.

And the raw number of new cases reported statewide on Thursday hit 1,598, the most since 27 May, when considerably fewer New Yorkers were tested: about 65,000, compared with 119,000 on Thursday.

The hot spots are a significant problem, Cuomo said, adding “compliance is not where it needs to be”.