This weekend a mother and her newborn baby both tested positive for the coronavirus in the UK.

Naturally, this has sparked a lot of concern among pregnant women and mothers of young children.

So what happens if you get the virus, and what are the risks?

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According to guidelines from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in the UK, pregnant women "do not appear to be more severely unwell if they develop coronavirus than the general population".

However, because the virus is relatively new it's still unclear exactly what effect it might have on a pregnant woman's health.

"It is expected the large majority of pregnant women will experience only mild or moderate cold/flu-like symptoms," the RCOG says.

As for unborn babies, doctors are said to be looking into whether the newborn diagnosed this weekend caught the virus before they were born or afterwards.

But for now, the RCOG says, there is "no evidence that the virus can pass to your developing baby while you are pregnant... it is therefore considered unlikely that if you have the virus it will cause abnormalities in your baby".

And if you are diagnosed with the coronavirus, you'll still be able to breastfeed, as there's no evidence the virus can be passed on through breast milk. However, you should avoid coughing while doing so, and wash your hands before and after feeding.

Read the college's full guidelines here, external

What actually is the coronavirus? How might it affect you? What can you do to prevent it?

The BBC's Laura Foster explains everything you need to know - in just one minute.

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Dr Tom Frieden, the Obama-era US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) chief, said that during the 2009 flu pandemic public health officials were able to get test kits out fast.

"Something went wrong here," he told CNN. "We have to find out why."

It remains unclear exactly how many people have been tested in the US. Lawmakers on Thursday said the number was fewer than 10,000.

• Can the US catch up on testing?

"Reducing travel to China without a doubt bought us time, but it would never prevent this from coming to our shores," Dr Frieden said, adding that travel bans "are only useful if we use that time to prepare better".

That includes protecting the most vulnerable populations and healthcare workers, practicing social distancing and educating people on measures as simple as handwashing.

He said the coronavirus spread in the US "could be small with hundreds of deaths or it could be large with more than a million deaths".

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Former England footballer Wayne Rooney says the government and football authorities have treated footballers as "guinea pigs" during the coronavirus outbreak.

Elite football in Britain has been suspended until at least 3 April, with the Premier League saying "conditions at the time" will determine its return.

"For players, staff and their families, it has been a worrying week - one in which you felt a lack of leadership from the government and from the FA and Premier League," the former England captain wrote in his column in the Times newspaper.

"The rest of sport - tennis, Formula 1, rugby, golf, football in other countries - was closing down and we were being told to carry on.

"I think a lot of footballers were wondering, 'Is it something to do with money being involved in this?'. Why did we wait until Friday? Why did it take Mikel Arteta [Arsenal manager] to get ill for the game in England to do the right thing?

"After the emergency meeting, at last the right decision was made - until then it almost felt like footballers in England were being treated like guinea pigs.

"I know how I feel. If any of my family get infected through me because I've had to play when it's not safe, and they get seriously ill, I'd have to think hard about ever playing again. I would never forgive the authorities."

Read more here.

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Louisiana and Georgia have decided to reschedule their forthcoming primary elections, where voters must decide whether former Vice-President Joe Biden or Senator Bernie Sanders is best suited to take on President Donald Trump in the November general election.

Both candidates have cancelled recent campaign events due to coronavirus concerns.

Louisiana will now vote on 20 June instead of in April and Georgia on 19 May instead of late March. Democrats in the US territory of Puerto Rico have also requested the election there be postponed to late April.

But four states that are due to vote on Tuesday - including the key battlegrounds of Florida and Ohio - have not moved their elections. Extra precautions, like moving polling sites out of vulnerable locations like nursing homes and implementing additional cleaning of voting areas, are in place in these states, Politico reports, external.

"Americans have participated in elections during challenging times in the past, and based on the best information we have from public health officials, we are confident that voters in our states can safely and securely cast their ballots in this election," the states' election officials said in a joint statement.

From Monday, Germany will close its land borders with Austria, France and Switzerland to curb the spread of coronavirus, local media report.

The decision has not yet been announced by Germany's government.

A 75-year-old man has become the first person to die from coronavirus in Hungary.

The government said he died after being taken to South Pest Central Hospital with suspected coronavirus and pneumonia.

There are 32 reported cases of the virus in Hungary and 159 people are currently in quarantine, according to official figures. In response to the outbreak, the government has closed its lands borders with Austria and Slovenia, closed all schools and placed restrictions on public gatherings.

Nike is temporarily closing hundreds of stores across the world from Monday.

All of its branches in the US, Canada, Western Europe, Australia and New Zealand are going to remain shut until 27 March, the company says. The company has almost 400 stores in the US alone.

Nike told US media that its workers would be paid in full during this time off.

Its stores in South Korea, Japan, most of China and "many other countries" are going to stay open.

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The Dutch health ministry has recorded 176 new cases of the virus during the last 24 hours, along with eight virus-related deaths.

It said the total number of infections around the country now stands at 1,135.

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The death toll from the coronavirus in Iran has risen by 113 to 724, according to the latest figures from the health ministry. The number of infections has reached nearly 14,000.

Only China and Italy have been hit harder by the outbreak in terms of case numbers and deaths.

Iranian officials have reiterated their advice that people should stay at home and cancel all travel.

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Despite nationwide restrictions that include closing restaurants, cafes, cinemas and nightclubs, France is pressing on with local elections.

Measures to stop infections are in place at polling stations, with election officials wearing gloves and bottles of hand sanitiser placed at entrances.

Turnout currently stands at about 18%, down from 23% in 2014's vote.

French President Emmanuel Macron said the vote was needed to "ensure the continuity of our democratic life".

Spain has recorded 2,000 new virus cases and more than 100 deaths in 24 hours, AFP news agency reports.

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Europe is now the global epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic, and so many nations are taking drastic measures to try and fight its spread.

Here's a brief summary of what they've been doing:

• Austria has banned gatherings of more than five people, has expanded the list of countries it restricts entry to, and has closed schools and most shops
• People in Spain have been told not to leave home, except for buying essential supplies and medicines, or for work
• Romania is about to declare a state of emergency
• The Czech Republic is likely to declare a quarantine for the entire country, and has already closed its borders
• Slovakia has also shut its borders
• Italy, the worst-hit country in Europe, began a nationwide lockdown on Monday
• France has shut all schools, cafes, restaurants, cinemas, nightclubs and non-essential businesses - but its local elections are still going ahead
• The UK has postponed its local elections, which were meant to take place in May, for a year - so they'll now be held in 2021. The British government is also planning to ask everyone over the age of 70 to self-isolate in the coming weeks

Read more about the measures European countries are taking here.

The UK Foreign Office has updated its advice on travel to the US, with its guidance now against "all but essential travel to the whole country".

It comes after the US extended its travel ban to include the UK and Republic of Ireland.

More on the UK's plans for protecting the elderly and vulnerable from coronavirus.

Anyone over the age of 70 in the coming weeks will be asked to stay at home to shield themselves from the outbreak.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock told the BBC's Andrew Marr that this shouldn't stop healthy individuals helping those who were self-isolating.

Austria has banned gatherings of five people or more as part of a series of new, tighter restrictions to "starve" the coronavirus.

The government is also closing restaurants from Tuesday, and is telling people not to leave the home apart from to go to work, get food or grab other necessities, or to help people.

Chancellor Sebastian Kurz tweeted: "We're aware those are massive restrictions but they are necessary to defend the health of the Austrian people and starve out Covid-19."

People have also been banned from entering Austria from the UK, Netherlands, Russia and Ukraine - an extension of a ban that was already in place for Italy and Switzerland.

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Yesterday the US extended its travel ban to the UK and Ireland - and so a lot of people have spent today grabbing early flights home.

The above photo was taken by Ruth Procopi, who grew up in the UK but has lived in Chicago for about 20 years.

She was visiting family in Watford when she heard about the travel ban, and flew home today.

When she got into Chicago's O'Hare airport, she said it was "chaos".

"I arrived from Heathrow at about 15:30 yesterday. It was chaos. Nobody explained anything," she told the BBC.

She said it took her about two hours to get through, in the end - despite not having any checked bags, and not having to go through any additional screening at the airport.

"We were told there was additional screening while on the plane, but no details," she added. "We were not told anything at any stage."

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BBC News, Paris

Debate is raging in France about what is the better model for tackling Covid-19: the Chinese with their radical system of confinement for limiting the spread; or the UK with their “herd immunity” approach, according to which infection of a majority is inevitable – and even, if properly handled, to be welcomed.

Up until a couple of days ago, it seemed France leaned more to the “herd” philosophy. Like in Britain, the official view favoured a controlled propagation - buying time so that the wave of infections is drawn out over a long period, and hospitals are not overwhelmed.

But now suddenly, there is a shift in the other direction. First schools, then cafés, restaurants and allnon-essential shops are to be closed. It seems the government now thinks Chinese- and Italian-style draconianism is more appropriate - except when it comes to the municipal elections, which are going ahead as planned.

If it all feels a little improvised, that is perhaps excusable. We have after all never seen anything like this before.

France will progressively reduce long-distance train, bus and plane travel on its territory over the coming days to limit the spread of the virus, the ecology minister has said.

The country - which has already shut cafés, restaurants, schools and universities, and urged people to limit their movement - will now seek to limit long-distance travel to what is "strictly necessary", Elisabeth Borne said.

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Kazakhstan has now declared a state of emergency, barring almost all travel to and from the country.

President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has published a decree restricting entry and exit to everyone except diplomats, and people specifically invited by the government.

The decree also restricts the work of large retail trade facilities, and instructs regional officials to boost security at key buildings and facilities.

The measures are set to be in place until 15 April.

Kazakhstan currently has eight confirmed cases of coronavirus.