QUOTES OF THE DAY

“A single shot of either the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine or of the Pfizer vaccine works against severe infection among the over-70s with a more than 80% reduction in hospitalisations.”

- Health Secretary Matt Hancock.

“I would encourage everyone to get tested. It’s good thing you can do, it’s your contribution to the fight against Covid.”

- Glasgow City Council leader Susan Aitken, below, after she was tested for Covid-19 at a new asymptomatic testing centre set up at Scotland’s largest mosque.

“The Duke of Edinburgh was today transferred from King Edward VII’s Hospital to St Bartholomew’s Hospital where doctors will continue to treat him for an infection, as well as undertake testing and observation for a pre-existing heart condition.”

- Buckingham Palace.

“The most awful part of all of it was when we knew how poorly Dawn was. Losing Dawn was absolutely devastating. I remember getting the phone call and us regrouping ... I can’t even describe it, just absolute disbelief, total disbelief, and that whole realisation that you’re almost starting again.”

- Tracy Daszkiewicz, Wiltshire Council’s public health director during the Salisbury Novichok attack, on the death of Dawn

Sturgess.

“It was beyond my wildest dreams and it has been like that ever since I got involved in Small Axe, as far back as 2016.” - Leroy Logan on John Boyega’s win at the Golden Globes for playing a character based on the anti-racism campaigner.