The BBC's Andrew Marr pointed out to Boris Johnson that his government had encouraged people to mix more through the "Eat out to help out" scheme.

The prime minister said he took full responsibility for everything that's happened since the pandemic began.

Marr also asked Boris Johnson whether the 22:00 curfew on pubs and bars was working.

Reality Check

Prime Minister Boris Johnson was asked by Andrew Marr to explain what the scientific evidence was behind the mandatory 10pm closing time for pubs, bars and restaurants in England.

Mr Johnson said: “one of the things that has been put to us is that by curtailing the hours you can reduce the transmission [of coronavirus]”.

We’re not sure what piece of evidence he is referring to.

The Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) – which reports to the government – has highlighted the risk of venues serving alcohol.

A report from Sage on 20 August, external – referencing alcohol at football matches - said that "specific activities such as hugging and singing/cheering could also increase the risk of transmission, and may be enhanced by alcohol use".

But we can’t find any specific advice on the scientific reasons for a 10pm closing time (despite asking the Department for Health and Social Care).

Speaking on the Andrew Marr Show previously, the University of Edinburgh's Prof Mark Woolhouse, a member of the government's infection modelling team, said "there isn't a proven scientific basis for any of this".

Read more here.

Mike Wendling
BBC anti-disinformation unit

Experts agree that one of the best ways to combat online misinformation is for trusted authorities to provide clear and accurate facts.

Contrast that with the contradictory messages from the White House on Saturday. They’ve pushed the social media rumour mill – overheated at the best of times – towards warp speed.

Some of President Trump’s critics accuse him of faking his illness to gain sympathy. Given the vast number of people who’d have to be in on it, that’s not really plausible.

And if you want to get super-deep into the weeds, there are the followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory. Some of them also think the president is faking it, as a prelude to a purge of a fictional elite paedophile ring (that’s often promised, but never happens).

Misinformation thrives when solid facts are hard to come by. And until the White House can provide clearer answers to simple questions, expect the rumours to keep flying.

Back now to the US president, and the number of people close to Mr Trump who are known to have contracted the virus has been growing since he announced that he had tested positive in the early hours of Friday morning (US East Coast time).

His announcement followed a positive diagnosis for his close aide, Hope Hicks, who reportedly started feeling symptoms on Wednesday. But it is not clear if she transmitted the virus to others.

It also followed a busy week for the president in which he interacted with many high-level officials.

The latest positive coronavirus test in the Trump circle is his person assistant Nicholas Luna, according to US media.

Campaign adviser and former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie also has the virus and has checked himself into hospital, he says.

Among the others close to the president who have tested positive are:

• First Lady Melania Trump

• Campaign manager Bill Stepien
• Former White House counsellor Kellyanne Conway
• Republican Senators Mike Lee and Thom Tillis

Another Republican Senator, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, has also said he has tested positive.

Mr Johnson was asked about his message to the US president, as perhaps the "only person in the world who understands what President Trump is going through".

“I’m sure that President Trump is going to be fine, he has got the best possible care,” Mr Johnson tells Andrew Marr.

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

Asked if that should mean fewer cheeseburgers, Mr Johnson said obesity was an important issue for the NHS but said he was not commenting on the president's weight.

The prime minister said it was “balderdash” that he was still suffering from the effects of coronavirus. He said he had a "nasty bout" but denied he has "long Covid".

“This is total tittle-tattle, it is drivel. It is not tittle-tattle, it is balderdash and nonsense," Mr Johnson said.

“I can tell you I’m fitter than several butcher's dogs.”

"I appreciate the fatigue that people are experiencing," Mr Johnson tells the BBC.

“They’re furious at me and they’re furious with the government," he says. "I’ve got to tell you in all candour it’s going to continue to be bumpy through to Christmas, it may even be bumpy beyond.

“But this is the only way to do it.”

But he also says things could be "significantly different" by Christmas and that scientists say it could be "significantly different" by spring.

"What I hope and believe we are strongly is that in the course over next few weeks and months the scientific equation will change whether that is vaccines or testing," Mr Johnson says.

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More from Boris Johnson on the Andrew Marr Show, talking about the impact of coronavirus restrictions.

He said any "Western, democratic, compassionate government" faced a dilemma between opening up the economy and saving lives.

"What we want people to do is to behave fearlessly but with common sense. To follow the guidance, whether national or local, get the virus down," Mr Johnson said.

"But to allow us as a country to continue with our priorities, to continue to keep kids in education, to continue to keep our economy moving as far as we possibly can."

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Boris Johnson has called on the public to "act fearlessly but with common sense" in tackling coronavirus.

Speaking to the BBC's Andrew Marr, the prime minister said there had to be a "balance" between saving lives and protecting the economy.

He said: "The best thing we can do now for all those who have suffered in the course of this pandemic is bring it to an end in the speediest possible way."

The Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage, a supporter of Donald Trump, tells Sky News's Sophy Ridge on Sunday that he spoke to a "close family member" of the president - whom he declined to identify - on Friday.

"They were obviously concerned," he said. "You would be concerned. If anyone gets it, you're going to be concerned. Truth is, we'll find out over the course of the next few days."

He addressed criticism of the White House Rose Garden gathering, where several attendees who later tested positive were seen in close contact.

"To even get near to Donald Trump, you have to be tested," Mr Farage said. "When you’ve just got a negative test, I guess it makes you a little bit complacent, a little bit too relaxed."

With questions raised over when President Trump tested positive, after his doctors and other officials gave conflicting information, Mr Farage said: "I don't believe for a moment that he knew he was positive until late on Thursday night."

More now on the "confusion" referred to in those newspaper headlines.

After doctors painted a rosy picture of Donald Trump's health on Saturday morning, his chief of staff, Mark Meadows, spoke to White House reporters.

Pool cameras caught him (in dark suit with black mask) saying "obviously the cameras are still rolling, so if we can go off the record with some of y'all".

His comment that the president's vital signs were "very concerning" was initially reported anonymously, before the chief of staff went on the record later in the day with an altered tone, saying the president was doing very well.

It's no surprise that the latest on Trump's positive Covid-19 diagnosis is leading the front pages in the US, UK and around the world.

Here's a selection:

You can read a full round-up of this morning's UK front pages here.

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We know President Trump has so far been given two therapies that try to slow the virus’s assault on the body.

Before leaving the White House he was given a dose of an experimental antibody cocktail as an injection, his doctor said, and is now being treated with the antiviral remdesivir.

The injection - designed by the pharmaceutical company Regeneron - is made up of two different monoclonal antibodies which are laboratory-made and aim to mimic our body's immune response.

The antibodies physically stick to the coronavirus so they can’t get inside the body’s cells and they make the virus more “visible” to the rest of the immune system.

There is hope it will be effective, but the evidence in patients is still limited and so it is considered an experimental treatment.

It is being trialled on Covid-19 patients in UK hospitals.

Remdesivir, meanwhile, is an antiviral drug that was originally developed to treat Ebola. It interferes with the virus's genome, disrupting its ability to replicate.

Clinical trials of more than 1,000 people found it cut the duration of symptoms from 15 days to 11. But it has not been shown to save lives, although studies are still continuing.

The US has bought almost all of the supply, with the manufacturer Gilead also donating some to South Korea.

Read more on where we are with treatments here.

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says spoken by telephone with Donald Trump and discussed the confirmation hearings for the president's conservative nominee to the Supreme Court, Amy Coney Barrett.

The Republicans say the Senate judiciary committee will meet in a week's time to begin the hearings - even though two members of the committee, Senators Thom Tillis and Mike Lee, have themselves tested positive for coronavirus.

All other activity in the Senate will be postponed for two weeks because of the rising number of cases among the members, however.

Democrats have said the decision to go ahead with the confirmation hearings threatened the health of everybody in Congress.

President Trump nominated Judge Barrett for the seat left vacant by the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg just weeks before he faces reelection.

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On 1 August, the government officially relaxed its guidance to 2.2m people in England who were "shielding" - isolating completely within their homes because they were extremely clinically vulnerable to the virus.

But for some, such as 31-year-old Tuesday Gale, shielding isn't over. Living alone in a one-bedroom flat without a garden, she says nearly six months of isolation is "enough to drive you insane".

Ms Gale has the rare immune disorder chronic granulomatous disease, external and was told two years ago that she would be lucky to live into her early 30s. Her doctors told her to remain in isolation after the government advice ended.

"My friendships have deteriorated a lot. We haven't seen each other face-to-face - their lives have begun again... but I am still stuck here in my prison cell," she said.

Her consolations have been the companionship of her dog and an online poetry writing group, which fulfilled that "human need of connection".

But some of the public reactions to recent government restrictions made her want to "scream and shout". "You can still go to the pub, you just have to leave at 10pm," she said.

Read Tuesday's full story here.

The announcement of President Trump's positive Covid-19 diagnosis brought one man, Dr Sean Conley, to immediate public attention.

The 40-year-old is Trump's personal doctor and holds the official title of White House physician.

He has been in the role since 2018, when he took over from Ronny Jackson who was nominated to lead the US Department of Veterans Affairs. (Dr Jackson eventually withdrew his nomination amid a flurry of misconduct allegations).

Dr Conley is a doctor of osteopathic medicine, rather than a more traditional medical doctor. Osteopathic medicine takes a more holistic approach to treatment with a focus on lifestyle and environmental factors.

But unlike in the UK, in the US the training for osteopathic doctors is largely similar to that of conventionally trained medical doctors, and osteopathic doctors are fully licensed and free to prescribe drugs there.

Dr Conley previously served as an emergency doctor in the Navy, a role he took up in 2006. He later served in a Nato hospital in Afghanistan.

The Pennsylvania native made headlines earlier this year when he revealed that the president had started taking the malaria and lupus medication hydroxychloroquine to ward off coronavirus.

It is an unproven treatment, but Dr Conley said they had “concluded the potential benefit from treatment outweighed the relative risks". On Saturday, he said the president was no longer taking the drug.

Let's get away from the latest developments in the US now, briefly, and consider the hard choices elderly and vulnerable people needing care, and their families, have faced since the start of the pandemic.

Visiting restrictions have meant that people haven't been able to see their loved ones as they usually would.

The family of Rita Perrott, a 95-year-old with dementia, had made the difficult decision to place her in a care home at the start of the year. But the pandemic upended all their plans for her care and made visiting impossible.

So they decided to bring her back – unable to bear the thought of her dying alone in the care home.

For the ambulance crew, it's the first time they've taken someone out of a care home. "We only ever take people into care homes," they tell granddaughter Anna and her mother, Sue.

Doctors had told the family that Rita was at the end of her life, and they wanted to ensure she could spend her final days with them. They speak openly and honestly with her about the approaching end.

"It's not just about dying, but dying well," says Anna.

"We're waiting for a chair upstairs," says Sue. "It's standing room only in heaven but Grandma needs a chair."

"We'll know when it's time," adds Rita.

Read the full story

Here's the video President Trump released a few hours ago on Twitter.

The president thanked the medical professionals treating him, as well as the American people for their support.

Mr Trump said that he was feeling much better but that the "real test" would come in the next few days. Mr Trump - who was given oxygen before being taken to the hospital near Washington - admitted he did not feel well when he arrived on Friday.

Referring to the drug treatments available for coronavirus, he says "we have things happening that look like they're miracles, coming down from God."

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Unsurprisingly, the news around President Trump is dominating headlines this morning. But let's take a look at what else is happening with the pandemic around the world:

• Thousands of Israelis have protested against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his handling of the coronavirus crisis. The street protests took place in defiance of a new law imposing curbs on public gatherings, with the largest crowds seen in Tel Aviv
• The human rights group Amnesty International has said Australia risks action at the United Nations if it fails to bring home thousands of its citizens left stranded overseas because of travel restrictions in place due to the pandemic
• Also in Australia, daily infections in the hotspot state of Victoria rose on Sunday. But officials there said restrictions are still likely to be eased if the broader trend of falling cases continues
• And more than 3m people in Madrid have had new restrictions imposed on their lives as Spain tries to control the most serious second wave of infections in Europe. People there can travel outside their home districts for essential journeys only
• There have been almost 35m confirmed cases of coronavirus worldwide with more than 1m deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University in the US which is tracking the data

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Good morning and a very warm welcome to our live coverage if you're just joining us. Here's a round-up of the main headlines from the UK:

• The UK reported 12,872 new cases of coronavirus on Saturday, the first time more than 10,000 cases have been reported in one day since mass testing began. The government said a technical issue led to delays and meant some cases over the past week were recorded in Saturday’s data. Separate evidence from community sampling has suggested infections are rising more slowly than in recent weeks
• Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said the government has “lost control” of the virus, accusing Boris Johnson of “serial incompetence”. He told the Observer the government should adopt a range of measures as a “road map” for dealing with Covid-19 until a vaccine is available
• A cancer care charity says that thousands of women in Wales have breast cancer that has gone undetected because of the suspension of screening services during lockdown
• Parents in Wales are calling for an end to the “postcode lottery” of variable remote teaching standards from schools if some pupils have to self-isolate. England is using emergency powers to require schools to offer the same lessons to pupils who cannot attend, but a study suggested Wales had the lowest levels of online learning in the UK
• Police in Northern Ireland have issued 800 spot fines of £60 for breaches of coronavirus rules. Nobody has yet been fined for not wearing a mask on public transport or in shops since they became mandatory in July and August, raising questions about whether these laws are being adequately enforced
• And the 40th London Marathon - delayed from April - will take place today under unusual circumstances. Elite runners will race on a course in St James’ Park while 45,000 other entrants will take part in a virtual marathon, running the distance wherever they are in the UK or the world

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A president falling sick and being admitted to hospital would be a big news story at any time, but with the US election less than a month away, Trump's illness is even more significant.

Given his age, 74, he is in a high-risk category for complications from the disease. At the very least, he has to isolate while he is treated, meaning the US presidential contest - at least his side of it - has been fundamentally altered, our North America reporter Anthony Zurcher writes.

The public has consistently given the president low marks for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, so anything that puts the focus on the disease is potentially damaging for his re-election prospects, our reporter explains.

Read more from Anthony.