A small crowd of well-wishers camped overnight outside the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center close to Washington - in chilly temperatures - as the president spent his second night in hospital with coronavirus.

"Get well soon Mr President! We are praying for you" read one sign, tied to the hospital fence.

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We reported earlier that the official messaging around Trump's condition has been somewhat mixed - causing confusion, and leading to suspicion and even conspiracy theories.

Here's what we know (all timings are US East Coast):

• Early hours of Friday: President Trump announces on Twitter that he and his wife Melania have tested positive for Covid-19
• Friday evening: The president is transferred to Walter Reed Medical Center for treatment
• Saturday morning: Dr Sean Conley, the president's physician, tells a press conference outside the hospital that Trump's condition is improving and he is already talking about his return to the White House. He says that the president hadn't had trouble breathing and hadn't been given oxygen while at the hospital
• Within minutes an anonymous source - later revealed to be the president's Chief of Staff Mark Meadows - gives reporters a different picture, saying Trump's "vitals over the last 24 hours were very concerning and the next 48 hours will be critical"

• Meadows subsequently tells Reuters news agency that Trump was doing "very well" and "doctors are very pleased with his vital signs". An anonymous Trump adviser says the president was unhappy with Meadows' initial comments

• Confusingly, Dr Conley said in his press conference that they are "72 hours into the diagnosis now" - suggesting that Trump had been diagnosed on Wednesday morning, significantly earlier than previously thought
• Saturday evening: The Trump administration releases a "timeline clarification" memo from Dr Conley saying he meant "day three", not "72 hours", that the diagnosis was made on Thursday evening, and that the experimental antibody treatment by Regeneron (which is spelled as Regeron in the memo) was administered on Friday

• Meadows tells Fox News in a phone interview that Trump's condition on Friday was much worse than officials had publicly admitted, and doctors had recommended he go to hospital because he had a fever and his blood oxygen levels had dropped rapidly
• Shortly afterwards, Trump posts a video on Twitter saying he feels "much better"

Steve Cortes, a senior adviser to the Trump campaign, has insisted that the president is "as upbeat and assertive as he's ever been", despite being in hospital with coronavirus.

In an interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday, Mr Cortes said he and other senior campaign staff spoke to the president on the phone on Saturday.

"He's doing well," he told Wallace. "This president is going to recover, we are highly confident of that."

"There was not even one iota of the president feeling sorry for himself," added Cortes. "He is still governing actively as president of the United States, even from the hospital."

Quizzed about the lack of mask-wearing by many of the Republican camp, including the president, at both the Rose Garden ceremony to announce Judge Barrett's Supreme Court nomination and the first presidential debate, Cortes said "leaders take risks".

"He [Trump] was unwilling to completely sequester himself, to take no risk," explained Cortes, adding that the Trump party were all tested ahead of the debate.

"We believe masks are very useful, the president has worn them on many occasions," Cortes said.

"We also believe in some element of individual choice, people were distanced and they had been tested."

Earlier, Trump campaign adviser Jason Miller was pressed on the president's "cavalier" attitude to wearing masks. He rejected the criticism, saying the campaign hands out masks at rallies, but accused Joe Biden of over-using masks as a "prop".

In response, Biden spokeswoman Kate Bedingfield told ABC's This Week programme: "That tells you a lot of what you need to know about how the Trump campaign has treated this from the outset."

She said Biden had taken the pandemic seriously "from the outset" and that he encouraged the American public to do the same.

"He believes strongly that the role of the president is to lead and to lead by example," she said.

She added that Americans were "looking for that kind of reassurance" as the country faces "an incredibly chaotic, disruptive time".

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A Trump campaign strategist has said the president is "on the recovery" following his positive Covid-19 test.

"[He] is doing much better today," Jason Miller told ABC News.

"He's on the recovery right now and I think he'll be back in short order," he said.

"He's anxious to get back out there on the campaign trail... and that's what I can speak to having spoken with the president at length yesterday," Mr Miller added.

On Saturday, Mr Trump's doctor said his condition was improving. But confusion mounted shortly after when White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said the president's vitals were "very concerning".

With President Trump now in hospital, there are growing questions about how he and his wife were exposed to the virus.

And a crowded Rose Garden event is coming under intense scrutiny - last week's ceremony where Trump announced his nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court.

Footage from the scene showed few attendees wearing masks. The seating was not set 2m (six feet) apart, while some guests bumped fists, shook hands or even hugged one another.

Eight people who attended are now confirmed to have the virus - although it is unclear exactly where and when they caught it.

Read more about the event here.

One of the few people who knows what it feels like to be a leader and ill with Covid while under immense scrutiny is Boris Johnson.

The UK prime minister, in a morning interview on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, said he was sure Trump was going to be fine, and would be having the best possible care. "The most important thing to do is follow his doctors' advice," Johnson said.

Here's a round-up of today's main stories from the UK:

• The prime minister warned that life in the UK could "continue to be bumpy through to Christmas, it may even be bumpy beyond”. In a BBC interview, he called on the public to behave "fearlessly but with common sense"

• Johnson said he was “frustrated” with the performance of the UK’s test and trace system, which was returning results too slowly. “I take full responsibility for the service, by international comparators it is really very, very good indeed,” he said
• Defending the Eat Out to Help Out discount scheme from claims it may have help to spread the virus by packing restaurants, Johnson said it helped to save at least two million jobs and there was a “balance we’re trying to strike”
• He also defended the 10pm hospitality curfew across much of the UK, saying it could reduce transmission, and he blamed people who “pour out into the street and hobnob” for some of the chaotic scenes on city streets
• The interview came after the UK recorded 12,872 new cases on Saturday, the first time it the daily figure released has exceeded 10,000 cases since mass testing began. The government said the high total was caused by a backlog due to the delayed recording of some cases from previous days
• Labour said the prime minister had failed to set out a "serious strategy to improve public confidence in the government's handling of this crisis" and had "waffled and ducked" every question. Leader Keir Starmer said earlier the PM had "lost control" of the virus
• Cineworld plans to shut all 120 UK cinemas, putting 5,500 jobs at risk, because the delays to release dates of blockbuster movies such as the new James Bond are making the industry "unviable"
• And some of the estimated 45,000 non-elite runners taking part in a virtual London Marathon have completed their race at locations across the UK and the world. The event in the capital has been restricted to elite runners due to the pandemic

President Trump has long faced criticism for his approach to the coronavirus pandemic.

In the early stages of the crisis, he was accused of playing down its severity. He has at times suggested preventative measures not recommended by medical experts and even ridiculed the wearing of face masks.

So how is the US faring?

Well, it has the world’s highest number of confirmed Covid-related deaths at nearly 208,000. It has also recorded more than seven million cases, which is about a fifth of the world's total.

The rates of new hospital admissions and deaths have declined, however, with the seven-day average for deaths per day remaining below 1,000 since the end of August.

The outbreak has also had a devastating impact on the US economy. GDP fell by a record rate of 33% in the three months from April to June, but has recovered some ground since then.

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An opinion poll in the US has found that well over half (65%) of those who responded believe President Trump could have avoided infection if he had taken coronavirus more seriously.

The Ipsos/Reuters poll, which gathered responses from 1,005 US adults, including 596 likely voters, over the previous two days, also found that more than half (55%) did not believe the president was telling the truth about the virus - and only 34% believed he was.

Of those polled, 57% of Americans said they disapproved of Trump's response to the pandemic overall, up about 3 percentage points from a poll that ran late last week.

They also appear to be largely supportive of curtailing the 2020 presidential race to ensure safety, with 67% in favour of stopping in-person campaign rallies and 59% maintaining that presidential debates should be postponed until Trump recovers.

Among those adults who are expected to cast ballots on 3 November, the poll found that 51% were backing Democratic candidate Joe Biden, while 41% said they were voting for Trump - the remaining 8% were either voting for a third party or undecided.

Only about 61% of voting-age Americans actually voted in the 2016 election.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has cancelled a planned trip to South Korea following President Trump's Covid-19 diagnosis.

An updated itinerary included a visit to the Japanese capital, Tokyo, from Sunday to Wednesday.

But an expected trip to Seoul on 7 October was removed from the schedule.

"Secretary Pompeo... will work to reschedule visits on that trip, that is now just a few weeks off," a statement said.

If you're just joining us, President Donald Trump has spent a second night in hospital after falling ill with coronavirus. Here's the latest:

• On Sunday morning, the president posted on Twitter to thank supporters who had rallied in Washington DC and elsewhere to wish him a speedy recovery
• He earlier said he was feeling "much better" and was looking forward to resuming an election campaign upended by his diagnosis
• On Saturday, Trump's doctor said his medical team was "cautiously optimistic" but the president was "not out of the woods yet"
• That statement followed mixed messages from the hospital and the White House that led to confusion over the timeline of the president's illness
• The doctor's statement was seemingly contradicted by the president's chief of staff, who said earlier on Saturday that Trump's vital signs over the last 24 hours had been "very concerning" and that the next 48 hours would be critical
• Meanwhile, a well-attended event on the White House lawn is coming under scrutiny after eight people there, including Trump and his wife Melania, were confirmed to have tested positive. Many attendees sat close together and did not wear masks, while some bumped fists, shook hands or even hugged one another in greeting

President Donald Trump has just tweeted his thanks to well-wishers who appeared outside his hospital.

Supporters gathered at the Walter Reed Medical Center on Saturday waving US flags and wearing Make America Great Again caps.

"Thank you so much!" Trump tweeted on Sunday.

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Some of the non-elite runners have crossed the finish line in today's London Marathon - but many of them are miles from London.

With the pandemic preventing a large gathering, runners were encouraged to find their own 26.2-mile (42.16-km) course and log their time on the official app to secure their medal.

Runner Gill Silverthorn, on her 10th London Marathon, "drew a few odd stares" running in a 10kg rhino costume for charity in the early hours around Penzance, Cornwall.

"Doing something positive thing with 45,000 people around the world was just so lovely," she said.

"It's not like previous marathons with the loud crowds. There came a point where I needed a few shouts and some car horns to keep me going."

Sue Flynn, 49, said it was a "unique experience" after setting off at the stroke of midnight and finishing at 07:30 BST - all so she could give her son a lift to his Army training base later today.

She said she missed the support of the crowd, but added: "I feel the same sense of achievement as if I'd done it in London. A marathon is a marathon."

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President Trump tweeted a video message on Saturday evening saying he felt "much better".

"Over the next period of a few days I guess that's the real test. We'll be seeing what happens over those next couple of days," he said.

Harvard Medical School emergency physician Dr Jeremy Faust has been following the president's case, and told the BBC the message did not mean the president had recovered.

"He looked a little better than I feared he might. I thought, based on the reports we were hearing all day, that he might look a little more ill. So I was encouraged for him to see him looking as he did," Faust said.

"But this disease can change rapidly. And you can feel good one minute to do a video. And ten minutes later, an hour later, you can feel that you cannot do that."

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Yesterday's decision to delay the latest Bond movie, No Time To Die, until the spring is yet another blow for cinema companies.

Cineworld, the world's second-largest cinema operator, is planning to temporarily close all 120 of its UK screens, as first reported in the Sunday Times. The company is writing to Prime Minister Boris Johnson to say the industry is "unviable" because of decisions by studios to postpone major releases, the newspaper reports.

Rob Arthur, an industry analyst at cinema strategists The Big Picture, told the BBC "the current market is broken".

"Film release schedules are being changed on a daily, never mind weekly, basis. It has been a catastrophic, devastating, year for operators."

Marianna Spring
Specialist disinformation and social media reporter

Contradictory information from the White House about when Trump was diagnosed with Covid-19 and the treatment he’s receiving has made it an even more fertile time for disinformation to spread online.

The suggestion Trump could have tested positive earlier than was originally suggested has lead to baseless rumours about body doubles in clips seen prior to the announcement.

And rumours about the President receiving oxygen have lead to unfounded claims that Trump was wearing an oxygen tank when seen a few days ago. There is no evidence to support this - but there are real questions about whether he’s now receiving oxygen.

Confusion about the current condition of the President has also led to rumours that the most recent video of him has been edited to remove coughing breaks.

How can you spot disinformation on your social media feed when the official sources we’d hope might have some answers are giving out conflicting messages?

1) Think about bias. Why was a post shared? This is happening on the backdrop of an election. That could explain confusing communication from the top, as well as baseless claims the President isn’t ill at all.

2) How does it make you feel? Big news events like this lead to worry, confusion, panic and anger - especially when those we would expect to inform us are not doing so. Pause before sharing.

3) Interrogate the source. Where has a post come from? If something is unconfirmed or there’s no evidence to support it, better not to share.

Have you seen a post about this you want us to investigate? Get in touch: Marianna.spring@bbc.co.uk

After Donald Trump spent a second night in hospital with coronavirus, many are asking how the US president managed to contract the illness.

"They relied too much on diagnostic testing. We know that these tests have a very high false-negative rate," Ali Nouri, president of the Federation of American Scientists, told AFP news agency.

William Schaffner, a professor of infectious diseases at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, agreed.

"The reliance on a rapid test, with its limitations, unfortunately gave the White House and its staff a false sense of security that they were in control of the virus,” he told Reuters, adding that people "have to wear masks, do social distancing and not go to all these rallies".

"I'm all for masks... People have seen me wear one. If I'm in a group of people where we're not 10 feet away," President Trump said in a Fox Business Network interview over the summer.

"But usually I'm not in that position and everyone is tested. Because I'm the president, they get tested before they see me."

Reality Check

Boris Johnson was asked about the statistical problem with the spike in positive test results announced yesterday.

“There was a failure in the counting system that has now been rectified,” he told Andrew Marr.

The latest daily figure on the government’s data dashboard, external, from Saturday, shows that 12,872 people had tested positive for coronavirus in the UK – a big increase on previous days which had seen daily figures of around 7,000 positive cases.

But there was also a warning that there had been a delay in a number of cases in England getting into the statistics. That means that some of the daily figures between 24 September and 1 October were lower than they should have been, and the totals reported “in the coming days” will be correspondingly higher than they should have been.

The prime minister blamed “a computing issue”.

You can read more about it here.

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A lot has happened since President Trump revealed he had tested positive for coronavirus in the early hours of Friday morning (US East Coast time).

On Saturday we heard conflicting reports about his health from doctors and staff. Trump also delivered his own messages about how he was feeling, posting a video on Twitter in which he said he was "much better".

But here's a reminder from our White House reporter, Tara McKelvey, about what a seismic day Friday was:

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.

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.

A security official tried to tell his colleagues where they should stand for the president's 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.

Read more from Tara's report here.

On Saturday, rallies were held around the US where people wished the president a speedy recovery.

Supporters of President Trump gathered with placards and flowers outside the Walter Reed National Military Hospital near Washington where the president is being treated.

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Counter-protesters were also in attendance outside the military hospital.

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In California, supporters held a pro-Trump car caravan. Elsewhere in the country, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, backers of the president took to their boats.

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You can see more pictures of the rallies here.