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Trump receives anti-viral treatment for Covid-19

President Trump has spent his first night in a military hospital after testing positive

President Trump has spent his first night in a military hospital, where he is being treated for a coronavirus infection. His doctor said Mr Trump did not need supplemental oxygen, but that specialists decided to start treatment with the drug Remdesivir and an experimental anti-body cocktail.

Also in the programme: We hear from both sides of the frontline of the fighting in Nagorno Karabakh; and Sudan has signed a peace deal with some of its rebel factions aimed at ending years of violent conflict.

(Image: The Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland, where President Trump is being treated. Credit: Reuters/Joshua Roberts)

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  • Sat 3 Oct 202012:06GMT

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