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The UK has reported a huge total of coronavirus cases for the second day running as public health officials get to grips with a technical issue that delayed the recording of thousands of cases in the daily figures.

Yesterday evening's total of 22,961 infections comes after Saturday's figure of 12,872 cases. Between them, both days' figures include 15,841 cases which should have been reported between 25 September and 2 October.

BBC health editor Hugh Pym said the adjustment meant that daily figures for the end of the week were nearer 11,000 than the 7,000 reported.

Public Health England said all the individuals who tested positive have been informed, but the issue delayed contact tracing until 01:00 BST on Saturday, when the information was finally passed on.

Labour's shadow health secretary Jon Ashworth said: "This is shambolic and people across the country will be understandably alarmed."

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Amid growing criticism of the danger that the president's drive-by posed to Secret Service agents, NBC news reports that Melania Trump would not visit her husband because of the risks to staff.

"She has Covid," the unnamed official told NBC on Saturday, external. “That would expose the agents who would drive her there and the medical staff who would walk her up to him.”

Donald Trump was pictured driving past his supporters who had gathered outside Walter Reed hospital on Sunday. He was accompanied by masked secret service agents.

The White House has defended the decision, saying that "appropriate" precautions were taken. But others, including a doctor at the facility, said the decision had endangered those who travelled with the president.

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It was reported yesterday that Cineworld was about to temporarily close all its UK cinemas, but now the official announcement is out and it's even more stark: the world's second largest cinema operator is closing in the US as well.

It means 127 UK venues - including Picturehouses - and 536 in the US will shut their doors as it struggles to cope with the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic. The announcement did not give any date for reopening.

Cineworld says 45,000 jobs are affected, with 6,500 in the UK.

Robert Mitchell, film industry analyst at Gower Street Analytics, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the delays to the new Bond movie, No Time To Die, were the final straw as cinemas were unable to draw in viewers with new blockbusters.

"With everything else moving out of the calendar, it was the last hope," he said, warning more cinema chains might follow suit.

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A senior official who served under Barack Obama has described President Donald Trump's decision to drive past his supporters while undergoing treatment for Covid-19 as "rather appalling".

Brett Bruen, a former White House director of global engagement, told the BBC World Service that he was "rather alarmed the president, his staff and the medical professionals at the Walter Reed hospital would have allowed his security staff to be put in such danger" for "a photo op".

Bruen described the White House's response to Trump's illness as "a case study in how not to handle crisis communications", saying that authorities had issued conflicting accounts and remained "evasive" on the details of the president's condition.

"We have to know whether or not he is in command of all of his functions. This is no longer just a political communication; this is about the safety and stability of our country."

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The son and sister of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro are to be among 2,000 volunteers to receive a coronavirus vaccine developed by Russia as part of clinical trials.

Maduro said in an address on Sunday that he approved of his son's decision, adding that he himself would be the first person to receive the vaccine - known as Sputnik V - once it was ready for mass use.

Russia was the first country to officially register a vaccine against coronavirus on 11 August and President Vladimir Putin said his own daughter had received a dose. However, health experts have questioned whether it has undergone the necessary testing.

The Venezuelan government, which has received billions of dollars in loans from Russia, said in August that it would be willing to take part in clinical trials for the new vaccine.

Venezuela has offiically recorded more than 77,000 infections and around 650 deaths since the pandemic began, although the real figures may be much higher.

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If you’re just joining us in the UK, good morning. Here’s a summary of the main headlines:

• The UK recorded 22,961 cases of coronavirus on Sunday as Public Health England completed recording a backlog of cases between 25 September and 2 October. BBC health editor Hugh Pym said the adjustment meant daily cases at the end of last week were nearer 11,000 than the 7,000 previously reported.
• Jobseekers will be offered coaching and advice about moving into “growing sectors” as part of a £238m government employment programme. Unemployment figures have hit their highest level for two years in the pandemic, with young people hit hardest
• Nearly three-quarters of firms say they plan on maintaining their increased levels of home working after the pandemic. In a survey of 1,000 firms by the Institute of Directors, half also said they planned to reduce their long-term use of office space.
• Northern Ireland is considering new interventions after a surge of infections in recent days put hospitals under growing pressure. But Health Minister Robin Swann said he did not want a return to “long-term or indefinite lockdown”.
• The Scottish government needs to do more to meet child poverty targets, after the pandemic swept a million people living “precarious lives” deeper into poverty, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation said.

• A study in Wales found that 30% of new mothers stopped breastfeeding before they wanted to during lockdown because of a lack of face-to-face support.

Not everyone was impressed with US President Donald Trump's decision to briefly leave the hospital where he's being treated for coronavirus to say thank you to supporters gathered outside.

Wearing a mask and sitting in the back of a car, Trump waved from the window as the motorcade passed crowds of fans near the Walter Reed hospital on Sunday, accompanied by masked secret service agents.

The drive-by quickly elicited a response from one doctor at the Walter Reed hospital, who took to Twitter to say that the drive had exposed people in the car with Trump to Covid-19.

"They might get sick. They may die. For political theater. Commanded by Trump to put their lives at risk for theater. This is insanity," wrote James Phillips, chief of disaster medicine at George Washington University.

Shortly afterwards, a White House official said "appropriate" precautions had been taken to protect Trump and his staff. "The movement was cleared by the medical team as safe to do," he said.

Politicians also responded. "More than 205,000 Americans are dead. We need leadership. Not photo ops," tweeted Hakeem Jeffries, external, chairman of the Democrats in the US House of Representatives.

But UK politician Nigel Farage, a long-time supporter of Trump, praised the decision, saying it why "the American people love Trump".

The world's attention appears to be fixed on the US hospital where President Donald Trump is being treated for coronavirus. However, Covid-19 continues to affect the lives of millions around the globe. Here are some of the main headlines from this morning:

• The number of coronavirus cases around the world has passed 35 million, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University. More than one million people have died since the pandemic began

• Paris will shut all bars completely from Tuesday as the French government raises the city's coronavirus alert to maximum amid high infection rates. Full details of the new restrictions will be announced later on Monday
• The news is more positive in New Zealand's biggest city, Auckland, where Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced that remaining restrictions will be lifted later this week. The city was the centre of a new cluster in August, but no new cases have been reported in the last 10 days
• The Japanese founder of popular fashion brand Kenzo has died from complications linked to coronavirus at the age of 81

If you're waking up and reading our live coverage of the Covid crisis and the US president, here's a recap of the main developments in the past few hours:

• President Donald Trump has spent a third night in the Walter Reed hospital where he is being treated for coronavirus
• On Sunday his doctors revealed that he had been given steroid dexamethasone after oxygen level drops on Friday and Saturday - normally the drug is used in severe cases of Covid-19
• Trump briefly left the hospital after announced in a video on Twitter that he wanted to surprise supporters who have gathered outside to wish him well
• But doctors criticised the drive-by saying that staff who travelled with Trump in the motorade could have been exposed to the virus

• Presidential candidate Joe Biden says he plans to travel to Florida on Monday for a campaign event - he appeared on stage with Trump last Tuesday when the president may have been infectious. Guidelines suggest anyone exposed to the virus should isolate for 14 days
• Vice-president Mike Pence is also continuing campaign events despite coming into contact with Trump and other officials who have tested positive
• US Attorney General Bill Barr has said he will quarantine after coming into close contact with officials who tested positive but will likely return to work this week
• There are still a number of unanswered questions - read analysis from our reporter Anthony Zurcher about what we still don't know

On Sunday Donald Trump's medical team gave an update about the president's condition in which they revealed he had been given the steroid dexamethasone. Since then US media have been reporting interviews with medical experts who say this suggests the president's illness could be severe.

Our health correspondent James Gallagher has explained more about how significant it is that Donald Trump has been given the treatment:

The steroid saves lives by calming the immune system, which can become dangerously overactive in Covid, but needs to be used at the right time. Give it too early and the drug could make things worse by impairing the body's ability to fight off the virus.

This is not a drug you would usually give in the "mild" stage of the disease. The Recovery Trial, which took place in the UK,showed the benefit kicked in at the point people need oxygen, external- which Mr Trump briefly did. The World Health Organization translated those findings to adviseusing the steroid in "severe and critical" cases., external

Mr Trump's blood oxygen levels did dip below 94%, which is one of theNational Institutes of Health criteria for "severe illness"., externalHowever, those low oxygen levels were not sustained and the gap between someone needing transient oxygen support and end-stage Covid-19 is massive.

We do not know the full details of Mr Trump's condition, but it is hard to imagine you or I would be discharged from hospital while taking dexamethasone and remdesivir and after being given an experimental antibody therapy. However, we do not have the medical support at the US president's disposal.

In a video statement on Sunday from hospital Donald Trump said he's now at the "real school" of coronavirus.

"It’s been a very interesting journey - I learned a lot about Covid-19. I learned it by really going to school," he suggested.

When he revealed on Friday that he had tested positive, people cited quotes illustrating how he has approached the pandemic - some of them true, others not.

Here's a reminder of what Donald Trump has said about Covid-19 since February.

Donald Trump is one of more than 7.3m people in the US who have tested positive for coronavirus. The country remains the worst hit in the world in terms of infection rates and the number of people who died from Covid-19.

Nearly 209,000 deaths have now been recorded from the virus, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention., external

The latest figures show that on Sunday a further 49, 327 cases were confirmed, and 703 fatalities.

Last week the states that recorded the highest numbers of infections were Texas, (29,527), California (21,199), Wisconsin (17,771), Florida (15,551) and Illinois (14,012).

One of the big questions about Donald Trump's illness is how will it affect the US election on 3 November.

It's unclear how voters thinking about who to support will respond to the president's positive coronavirus diagnosis and how the White House is handling the situation.

But the way the US election system works means that actually just a small number of people's voters will be decisive in swinging the final result.

Take a look at who decides who will be the next US president.

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One of the faces that has become familiar in the past three days following Trump's announcement that he tested positive is the president's personal doctor.

Wearing a white coat and standing in front of a row of physicians, Dr Sean Conley has been briefing global media outside the Walter Reed hospital about Trump's condition.

Dr Conley, 40, has served as Mr Trump's personal physician since March 2018 and before now has rarely been in the spotlight.

After graduating from the University of Notre Dame in 2002 and studying osteopathic medicine, in 2014 Dr Conley served as the chief of trauma with a Nato medical unit in Afghanistan.

Read more about Dr Sean Conley.

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Mike Pence and his wife Karen tested negative for coronavirus again on Sunday, making it the third negative result since Donald Trump revealed he had contracted coronavirus.

The vice-president is continuing to attend election campaign events as Trump's team aims to continue full steam head with others standing in for the president while he remains sick.

But Pence's activities are in contradiction with the quarantine guidelines issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that say anyone exposed to the virus should self-isolate for 14 days.

The vice-president was in contact with Trump on Tuesday at the White House when it is possible the president was infectious.

Pence is scheduled to debate Kamala Harris, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Wednesday.

Our reporter Anthony Zurcher has taken a look at some of the things that remain unknown to the public about the president's health, how the virus spread among Trump's allies, and how the White House has handled the situation.

How these questions are resolved could hold the key to understanding how much damage the virus will do to this president - to Trump's health, his reputation and his political standing, our reporter says.

The timeline around when the White House learned the president had Covid-19 is critical. We also still don't know all the facts about Trump's condition. And should vice-president Mike Pence be self-isolating?

Read more from Anthony about what we don't know about Trump's covid crisis.

After Donald Trump and other high-ranking officials at the White House tested positive for coronavirus, the administration said it would take part in contact tracing in order to reach people who may have been exposed to the virus.

Now Trump's team has disclosed to New Jersey health officials a list of at least 206 people who attended a fundraiser the president held at his golf club in the state on Thursday.

The New Jersey Health Department says it has contacted individuals to make them aware they may have been exposed, and warn that they should monitor themselves for symptoms.

The fundraiser was held at the Trump National Golf Course in Bedminster, where staff are now being interviewed to assess how much contact they had with Trump and his team.

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The president likes to speak directly to the public and has often kept his own spokespeople out of the loop. His days in hospital have been particularly challenging for those who work for him.

The conflicting messages showed the problems inherent for Team Trump. They have not provided regular, transparent updates about his health - in part because there has never been a coherent method of communicating the president's messages.

He has always preferred to be his own spokesman, and his aides have deferred to him. Now he is not well, and his aides have floundered.

On Saturday, White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows revealed that Trump's condition a day earlier was far worse than officials had made public. This was revealing on different levels. Journalists frequently grant permission to officials to speak off the record to obtain information.

On this occasion, however, their exchange was inadvertently captured on camera: it was a "Washington Gaffe", a term coined by journalist Michael Kinsley to describe the moment when a politician expresses candidly what they and others think but do not say out loud.

Meadows' remarks showed the president's team were not consistent in their views or in their messaging, revealing the discord and chaos unfolding behind the scenes. Above all, it showed they were deeply concerned about the president's health.

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We reported earlier that US media say Trump knew he had tested positive for coronavirus but did not publicly reveal it when he appeared on Fox News on Thursday.

The report drew criticism from some corners, given the risk of infection - but Trump's isn't the first US administration to give conflicting information about a president's health.

American presidents have a long history of hiding health problems.

In 1813 James Madison’s informed members of Congress that he was unable to meet with them - but he did not reveal details about a medical problem with his intestines and a fever that kept him sick for a month. He became so ill he couldn't read Congressional documents brought to him

In 1893 President Grover Cleveland received treatment mouth cancer diagnosis but wanted to hide that he was ill and needed surgery. To avoid going to hospital where information could be leaked, doctors performed the necessary operation below deck on a yacht owned by a friend of the president.

The most famous case is perhaps Franklin D. Roosevelt (president between 1933 and 1945), who had lost the ability to walk without leg braces, and the White House tried to hide the effects of his paralysis from the public.

And the ill-health of John F Kennedy, America's youngest elected president, did not emerge until many years later. He suffered from Addison's disease, an adrenal disorder.

Unlike the case with the current president, however, these conditions were not contagious.

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Covid presents a novel situation, but protecting the office of the presidency is something US lawmakers have planned for - and managed - before.

In the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan twice placed his vice-president, George HW Bush, in charge during medical emergencies. In the 2000s President George W Bush did the same with his vice-president when he was sedated during routine colonoscopies.

And when it comes to sudden health issues in an election year, few can match the drama that beset Teddy Roosevelt who completed an 84-minute speech after being shot in the final weeks of the 1912 campaign.

Trump is considered high-risk for Covid because he is a male over the age of 70. So what would happen if he became seriously ill?

Our colleagues at BBC Reality Check have looked into what a serious illness could mean for Trump and next month's election. Read the full story here, external.