France will confer a special honour on health workers who die from Covid while fighting the pandemic, President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday.

President Donald Trump takes his Covid denial tour back to the campaign trail Monday as the tense final stretch of an election now three weeks away gets a fresh jolt with Senate hearings on his Supreme Court pick Amy Coney Barrett.

President Donald Trump announced early Friday that he and his wife both tested positive for the coronavirus, an extraordinary development coming months into a global pandemic and in the final stretch of his reelection campaign in which he has flouted experts' guidance on preventing the disease's spread.

The Biden administration, siding with some world leaders over the U.S. pharmaceutical industry, came out in favor of waiving intellectual property protections for coronavirus vaccines.

The president made a surprise outing from his hospital bed in an effort to show his improvement, but the murky and shifting narrative of his illness was rewritten again with grim new details.

President Donald Trump is preparing to hold rallies in Wisconsin this weekend just as Covid-19 cases in the state reach new heights, potentially exacerbating the spread and stoking debate on the ethics of campaigning during the pandemic.