US President Donald Trump returned to the White House on Monday after a three-night hospital stay for coronavirus treatment.
But a wave of infections has hit his staff with only four weeks of campaigning left before election day.
Wearing a white surgical mask, Mr Trump gave a thumbs-up and waved as he walked to the executive mansion from the helicopter that flew him back from the Walter Reed Military Medical Centre outside Washington.
He then walked up the staircase of the White House South Portico, removed his mask and posed for pictures, at times giving a thumbs-up and others a salute.
Leaving the military hospital earlier in the evening, he responded to a question about how many people were infected at the White House by saying: "Thank you very much."
Earlier on Monday Mr Trump had tweeted his planned departure:
He sparked an angry backlash from the medical community on Sunday after driving past his supporters in a limousine with Secret Service agents outside the hospital, near Washington.
Wearing a face mask, he gave a regal wave from inside his bulletproof vehicle during the short trip after a weekend of muddled messages from his doctors.
Mr Trump's doctors were sufficiently satisfied with his progress to suggest he might return to the White House on Monday, to continue his five-day course of remdesivir treatment and other therapy.
But experts said his outing on Sunday broke his government's public health guidelines requiring patients to isolate while they are in treatment and still contagious, and put his Secret Service guards at risk.
Mr Trump was unapologetic, tweeting:
Mr Trump, who has been repeatedly rebuked for flouting public health rules and spreading misinformation on the pandemic, said in a video on Twitter that he had "learnt a lot about Covid" by "really going to school" as he has battled the virus.
Health experts took to the airwaves and social media to criticise the "stunt", which they said showed he had learnt nothing at all.
"Every single person in the vehicle during that completely unnecessary presidential 'drive-by' just now has to be quarantined for 14 days," said James Phillips, chief of disaster medicine at George Washington University.
"They might get sick. They may die. For political theatre. Commanded by Trump to put their lives at risk for theatre. This is insanity."
Mr Trump announced by Twitter on Friday that he and first lady Melania had tested positive for the coronavirus.
That evening he travelled to the Walter Reed Military Medical Centre for treatment.
At a briefing by Mr Trump's medical team on Sunday, White House doctor Sean Conley said the president's oxygen levels were at 98 per cent.
On Friday morning, his levels eased to under 94 per cent, rose, and dipped again later in the day, when the decision was made to take him by helicopter to Walter Reed.
Dr Conley said the president had been treated on Saturday with the steroid dexamethasone, after the drops in oxygen saturation.
Dr Brian Garibaldi, a specialist in pulmonary critical care, said Mr Trump was not showing any side effects to the medication “that we can tell”.
He said on Sunday that Mr Trump was “up and well” and the plan was to have him “out of bed” as much as possible.
Only hours earlier, National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien said Mr Trump would remain at Walter Reed "for a period of time" as doctors wanted to monitor him through day eight, on Thursday, of the virus.
"The doctors want to make sure that they're there for the president and he's getting the best treatment and he's doing well," Mr O'Brien told CBS News.
Mr Trump posted a video to Twitter late on Saturday in which he appeared relaxed in an open-collar shirt and blue suit jacket, telling viewers he would be "back soon", but acknowledging that the crucial coming days would be "the real test".
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday he was sure Mr Trump would be fine and was receiving the best possible care.
"The most important thing to do is to follow his doctors' advice," Mr Johnson told BBC TV. "He's got superb medical advice."
The prime minister tested positive for Covid-19 in late March and was admitted to hospital for a week, including three nights in intensive care.
He said he was fully recovered and was not suffering from "long Covid" symptoms.
Chinese President Xi Jinping also sent a message of sympathy to Mr and Mrs Trump.
“My wife, Peng Liyuan, and I express our sympathies to you and your wife and wish you a fast recovery,” state TV reported Mr Xi as saying.
Iran's dirty tricks to dodge sanctions
There’s increased scrutiny on the tricks being used to keep commodities flowing to and from blacklisted countries. Here’s a description of how some work.
1 Going Dark
A common method to transport Iranian oil with stealth is to turn off the Automatic Identification System, an electronic device that pinpoints a ship’s location. Known as going dark, a vessel flicks the switch before berthing and typically reappears days later, masking the location of its load or discharge port.
2. Ship-to-Ship Transfers
A first vessel will take its clandestine cargo away from the country in question before transferring it to a waiting ship, all of this happening out of sight. The vessels will then sail in different directions. For about a third of Iranian exports, more than one tanker typically handles a load before it’s delivered to its final destination, analysts say.
3. Fake Destinations
Signaling the wrong destination to load or unload is another technique. Ships that intend to take cargo from Iran may indicate their loading ports in sanction-free places like Iraq. Ships can keep changing their destinations and end up not berthing at any of them.
4. Rebranded Barrels
Iranian barrels can also be rebranded as oil from a nation free from sanctions such as Iraq. The countries share fields along their border and the crude has similar characteristics. Oil from these deposits can be trucked out to another port and documents forged to hide Iran as the origin.
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Children who witnessed blood bath want to help others
Aged just 11, Khulood Al Najjar’s daughter, Nora, bravely attempted to fight off Philip Spence. Her finger was injured when she put her hand in between the claw hammer and her mother’s head.
As a vital witness, she was forced to relive the ordeal by police who needed to identify the attacker and ensure he was found guilty.
Now aged 16, Nora has decided she wants to dedicate her career to helping other victims of crime.
“It was very horrible for her. She saw her mum, dying, just next to her eyes. But now she just wants to go forward,” said Khulood, speaking about how her eldest daughter was dealing with the trauma of the incident five years ago. “She is saying, 'mama, I want to be a lawyer, I want to help people achieve justice'.”
Khulood’s youngest daughter, Fatima, was seven at the time of the attack and attempted to help paramedics responding to the incident.
“Now she wants to be a maxillofacial doctor,” Khulood said. “She said to me ‘it is because a maxillofacial doctor returned your face, mama’. Now she wants to help people see themselves in the mirror again.”
Khulood’s son, Saeed, was nine in 2014 and slept through the attack. While he did not witness the trauma, this made it more difficult for him to understand what had happened. He has ambitions to become an engineer.
