QUOTES OFTHEDAY

“We will be working across the NHS with the support of the armed forces seven days a week, over weekends, over bank holidays, to get this rolled out into people’s arms as quickly as possible”

- Health Secretary Matt Hancock, on the roll-out of a Covid-19 vaccine

once it becomes available.

“My grandfather, one of his first memories was of the bells ringing when World War I ended. It was a horrific war and horrible things happened and people were just happy it was over with. In my mind I felt the same way... I kind of felt it was something like that. Thank God, it’s going to be over at some point”

- Glenn Deshields, a volunteer on the Pfizer vaccine trial, reacts after data suggested the jab was more than 90% effective in preventing

Covid-19 infection.

“I have decided I am going to go into rehearsals with my Cinderella now in March and then we are going to open in May. I am determined to open in May come whatever happens. I am just not going to be taking no for an answer there”

- Andrew Lloyd Webber, above, on his determination to open his new

production of Cinderella in May.

“Having been championing climate action now for the last 40 years, I can tell you that this isn’t a fight for the fainthearted... I am afraid we are literally at the last hour and there is real urgency for action”

- The Prince of Wales calls for action not words in the fight for a green recovery in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.