Last Saturday, President Trump announced his pick to be the next Supreme Court justice, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, in front of a crowd of about 200 people on the White House lawn.

Several people who attended the event in the Rose Garden have now tested positive for Covid-19. in addition to Donald and Melania Trump.

They are former White House counsellor Kellyanne Conway, Senator Mike Lee of Utah and Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina, who are both on the judiciary committee.

The president of the University of Notre Dame, John Jenkins, also attended and has tested positive. (Judge Coney Barrett is a graduate of Notre Dame.)

The White House Correspondents' Association said an unnamed reporter at the event had also tested positive with symptoms.

However, Judge Coney Barrett said on Friday that she had tested negative. Sources told US media she had the virus earlier this year.

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Democratic Vice-Presidential nominee Kamala Harris has said she is praying for a speedy recovery of Trump and his wife.

At a campaign event in Las Vegas on Friday, Harris said she and her husband Doug "are thinking of the First Family, with, you know, prayers that they recover and - and that this is not a painful process for them".

Harris is scheduled to face Republican Vice-President Mike Pence at a debate on 7 October in Utah. Both politicians tested negative for the coronavirus on Friday.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he has no doubt that President Trump will "make a very strong recovery".

Speaking to reporters on a visit to a construction company to coincide with the start of the Conservative Party conference, he said that he rang the White House on Friday night.

“I think obviously everybody’s wishing him and Melania the very best and hoping that they recover speedily and I’ve no doubt that he will. He'll make a very strong recovery,” the prime minister said.

Asked if he had any advice for the president, Mr Johnson - who was admitted to intensive care in April after contracting Covid-19 - said: “I think that he will be doing exactly what the doctors tell him to do and I’m sure he will be having the best care he can possibly get.

“I’m sure he’ll come through it very well," the prime minister added.

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As Americans wake up to news that their president has spent the night in hospital, let's look at other ways the global pandemic is marking our lives this weekend, in the UK and other countries.

Sunday's London Marathon will look worlds away from previous editions, the BBC's Alice Evans reports.

The UK's coronavirus lockdown forced a six-month delay to the race, which is normally run in April. Only a handful of runners, all elite, will be taking part on the official course around St James's Park in central London.

The 45,000 other participants will run or walk a marathon (26.2 miles, or 42km) at a time and place of their choosing on Sunday, logging their progress on an app to make their time official and secure a sought-after medal.

Gill Silverthorn said she had had a few odd looks from people while training for her race - which will take place along coastal paths and promenades around Penzance, Cornwall - wearing her 10kg rhino costume.

And in Brisbane, 10,000 miles (16,000km) away from the usual starting line in Greenwich, south-east London, Elizabeth Gallagher will begin her marathon at 3am UK time (midday for her).

Chris Finill, one of the "Ever Presents", a group of just 10 people who have run every London Marathon, will be running laps of Dunsfold Aerodrome in Surrey instead of the usual course for the 40th time.

The 61-year-old said: "It will be more meaningful to get to the finish on Sunday than it would be in a normal year because most people's journeys to get to the start line have been pretty difficult - let alone the race itself.

"So I think we'll all feel a particular sense of relief and satisfaction when we cross that finish line."

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Like a number of other world leaders earlier on, Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday wished Trump and his wife a speedy recovery, the state-run People's Daily newspaper tweeted., external

This is despite the fact that tensions between the US and China came to the fore last week at the annual UN General Assembly in New York, with Trump blaming the authorities in Beijing for the spread of coronavirus.

He called for China to be held "accountable" for the pandemic.

In his speech, President Xi said his country had "no intention to enter a Cold War with any country".

Adam Easton
Warsaw Correspondent

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Poland has reported 2,367 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, the highest number since the start of the pandemic.

The health ministry says 34 people died.

Saturday’s record beats the previous high set on Friday of 2,239.

Poland has seen daily increases above the 1,000 level since 24 September.

Since the start of the outbreak, Poland has had 98,140 cases and 2,604 deaths.

From Saturday, Poles travelling to the UK - not including goods drivers, seasonal agricultural workers and health workers - will have to self-isolate for 14 days.

This will also make life more difficult for the 900,000 Poles living in the UK: if they travel back to Poland, they'd have to quarantine on return to the UK.

Overall, 51 of Poland’s 380 districts now have increased restrictions, such as mandatory face mask wearing whilst outdoors.

Tara McKelvey
BBC News, Washington

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For months Trump and his aides have gone without masks and often appear to have lived as if there was no pandemic. Then the president tested positive, and their world changed. This is the story of a seismic day.

Early on Friday evening, it was peaceful at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, and so quiet you could hear an acorn drop. But the mood was tense.

Police tape was stretched from a tree to a basketball hoop, marking the landing zone for Marine One, the president's helicopter, and a dog sniffed for explosives. Donald Trump would arrive soon, and no-one knew quite what to expect.

A security official tried to tell his colleagues where they should stand for the arrival. The official admitted that his plan was a work in progress. "I don't think anyone knows what's going on," he said.

It was an accurate observation outside the hospital - and for much of the day at the White House, too.

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If you are just joining us, US President Donald Trump has spent his first night in a military hospital, where he's receiving treatment for his coronavirus infection.

His doctor said Trump didn’t need supplemental oxygen but that specialists had decided to start treatment with the drug Remdesivir to help boost the president’s lung resilience.

Before being airlifted to hospital, he received an experimental antiviral drug in the hope of dampening his Covid-19 symptoms.

Trump, who is 74 and obese, remains in charge of the US. He tweeted from his hospital suite that he thought he was doing very well. His son, Eric, has urged people to pray for his father.

Across the UK, students are self-isolating in their accommodation after outbreaks at university, with the 770 confirmed cases at Northumbria University among the largest clusters of infections.

It's prompted protests from many students, including at Edinburgh University's Pollock Halls, a complex which holds 1,880 people. Social media accounts called pollockprisoner have dubbed it "the UK's most expensive prison".

A student, Eve, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that one block was "completely locked down" and students were only allowed to leave their rooms once during the self-isolation period to take out their bins and do washing.

She said meals were delivered haphazardly, sometimes with breakfast, lunch and dinner all arriving at 21:00, while pastoral care was "really quite shocking" as students faced waiting days for a response from the university.

Edinburgh vice-chancellor Prof Peter Mathieson said: "We’re very keen to listen to our students and to respond to their concerns."

He said that when they delivered over a thousand meals, they only received a handful of complaints. "The majority are satisfied," he said.

Mathieson said the university had no plans to refund tuition fees, which are over £9,000 ($11,600) a year for students from parts of the UK other than Scotland. "An Edinburgh degree will still be a fantastic investment for these students," he said.

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After a ban on households mixing indoors came into force at midnight in Liverpool, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough and Warrington, more than a third of the UK population is living under heightened coronavirus restrictions.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock said households were recommended not to mix socially at all but added that he wanted the restrictions to stay in place for "as short a time as possible".

People are also being asked not to attend sports events as spectators, to only visit care homes "in exceptional circumstances" and not to travel unless it is essential.

Matt Ashton, director of public health for Liverpool, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that "our rate is really high" at 280 cases per 100,000 people and it "continues to increase".

He said cases had risen from 14 a week in July to 50 a week in August, before reaching 1,400 a week last month. The number of people being admitted to hospital had increased "tenfold", he said.

Meanwhile, Germany has issued a warning to its citizens against travelling to Scotland and northern England because of increases in infections.

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This week Trump joined more than 7.3 million Americans with coronavirus.

The US has been by far the worst hit country in the world, with more than 208,000 deaths, according to America's Johns Hopkins University.

New York was the epicentre of the pandemic earlier this year. The north-eastern US state has recorded more than 33,000 deaths, with over 461,000 cases.

But California, Florida and Texas have all now surpassed New York for total cases, although they have recorded fewer deaths.

On 1 October, Johns Hopkins identified North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Utah and Montana as the "highest-risk places", which all saw a spike in new daily cases.

An opinion piece in the Washington Post, external argues that Trump's diagnosis should act as a wake-up call to Americans still not taking proper precautions.

"The president may have thought he was safe with intensive testing but lax mask-wearing," it says.

"His diagnosis re-proves that everyone is vulnerable to this plague. People must wear masks and socially distance. We can hope only that Mr. Trump’s misfortune will drive that point home to his followers, and all Americans."

Trump's coronavirus diagnosis came after a busy week running his administration and campaigning ahead of the 3 November election, a time in which he has interacted with many high-level officials.

The president announced positive test results for himself and his wife, Melania, in a tweet on Friday, at around 01:00 local time (05:00 GMT).

This followed a positive diagnosis for his close aide, Hope Hicks, who reportedly started feeling symptoms on Wednesday and tested positive the next day.

Since the president's diagnosis, several people close to his administration have tested positive, including his campaign manager.

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James Clayton
North America technology reporter

Airbnb will prohibit one-night bookings in the US and Canada over Halloween.

The platform was concerned the properties were being targeted for large Halloween house parties.

A spokesperson for the company said the actions were designed to "help protect" communities from Covid-19.

Guests and hosts who have had their bookings cancelled will be reimbursed, and Airbnb's neighbourhood support line will be on call throughout the weekend to respond to complaints.

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Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where President Trump was flown by helicopter, is about 9 miles (14 km) north of the White House in Bethesda, Maryland.

Known as the President's Hospital, it's where US presidents usually have their annual check-up and it has also treated military staff for more than a century.

Earlier this year Trump visited wounded soldiers and healthcare workers there. The visit was the first time he had been pictured wearing a face mask.

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CNN has carried a new audio recording from journalist Bob Woodward's interview with Trump, external back in April that shows the president wasn't worried about contracting the virus.

While Trump admitted to Woodward the virus was a "plague" that "rips you apart", he has often resisted wearing a mask in public and has flouted social-distancing rules.

"You're risking getting it, of course," asked Woodward during the interview. "The way you move around and have those briefings and deal with people. Are you worried about that?"

"No, I'm not. I don't know why I'm not. I'm not," Trump replied.

"Why?" Woodward pressed on.

"I don't know. I'm just not," Trump said.

Aparna Alluri and Shadab Nazmi
BBC News, Delhi

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India has confirmed more than 100,000 deaths from coronavirus - a grim toll that ranks it third in the world behind only the US and Brazil.

September was the nation's worst month on record: on average 1,100 people died every day from the virus.

Regional anomalies continue as some states report far higher deaths than others - a sign, experts say, that the pandemic is still working its way through the country.

Here's some of what we know about where India is worst affected by Covid-19 and why.

James Gallagher
Health and science correspondent, BBC News

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Donald Trump has been given two therapies that try to slow the virus’s assault on the body.

The combination of antibodies, designed by Regeneron, mimic our own 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.

The approach makes scientific sense and there is huge hope it will be effective. However, the evidence in patients is still limited so this is considered an experimental drug.

Remdesivir works after the virus has infected one of the body’s cells. The drug disrupts the virus’s ability to make thousands of copies of itself and studies suggest this can shorten the course of an infection.

But it is unclear if either of these drugs are “life-saving”.

Covid becomes deadly when the body’s own immune system goes into overdrive and damages the body’s organs. This seems to happen in some patients around seven to 10 days into the infection.

It is at this stage that steroids, such as dexamethasone, work - and they remain the only drugs proven to save lives from Covid-19.

Peter Bowes
North America correspondent

Several leading members of Trump's Republican Party have come forward to confirm that they too have tested positive for Covid 19.

They include Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien, former adviser Kellyanne Conway and two of the party's senators.

They all attended an event at the White House last weekend where Trump nominated Amy Coney Barrett for the vacant seat on the US Supreme Court.

Officials say Barrett has tested negative for the virus.

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New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has sent her "best wishes for a speedy recovery" to Donald Trump and Melania Trump.

Speaking in Auckland, she said: "I stand with others in wishing all the best because this is obviously a virus that has globally had a devastating impact."