Coronavirus news you may have missed overnight: UK doctors receive urgent alert over health problems in children, as Trump refuses to take responsibility over anyone injecting disinfectant

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The global coronavirus pandemic has now infected more than three million people worldwide and an estimated 210,263 deaths have been recorded.

In the UK, more than 157,000 people have been confirmed to have contracted the disease, while the country’s hospital death toll has reached 21,092.

Here is your morning briefing of everything you may have missed overnight.

UK doctors receive urgent alert as coronavirus-linked health problems ‘may be emerging in children’

An urgent alert has been issued to doctors about a new coronavirus-related condition seen emerging in children.

The warning says there has been an “apparent rise in the number of children of all ages presenting with a multi-system inflammatory state requiring intensive care across London and also other regions of the UK” over the last three weeks.

The NHS England alert, shared by the Paediatric Intensive Care Society (PICS) on Sunday evening, adds: “There is a growing concern that [a Covid-19-related] inflammatory syndrome is emerging in children in the UK, or that there may be another, as yet unidentified, infectious pathogen associated with these cases.”

Trump says he takes no responsibility for people ingesting disinfectant despite suggesting it as treatment

Donald Trump said he will take no responsibility if Americans inject or otherwise consume disinfectant to kill Covid-19, even though he suggested it as a possible cure during a press conference.

“I can’t imagine why,” the president said when informed about Maryland’s governor saying his government got calls from people asking if they should.

The president earlier denied seriously suggesting people consume toxic materials after saying disinfectant could kill the virus but not via injections.

NHS hospitals to restore elective treatments for cancer, heart disease and other conditions

NHS hospitals across Britain are to start restoring non-urgent treatments for conditions like cancer and heart disease on Tuesday as experts grow increasingly confident that the first peak of coronavirus infections is passing.

The announcement came as the daily death toll of coronavirus cases in hospital fell to 360 – the lowest since the end of March.

Returning to work after three weeks suffering from the infection, Boris Johnson said there were signs the country was “turning the tide” on the outbreak but warned it was too early to lift social distancing restrictions.

Government to pay £60,000 to families of NHS workers who die on front line

Matt Hancock announced the government will pay £60,000 to the families of NHS workers and social care staff who die from coronavirus in the course of “essential frontline work”.

The health secretary told the Downing Street Covid-19 press conference that 82 NHS staff and 16 social care workers had lost their lives after contracting the disease during the pandemic.

Speaking on Monday, the cabinet minister revealed the new life assurance scheme – funded by the government – and said ministers were looking at other frontline professions who do not have access to similar schemes.