Who said it

“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.

“It also signals, I think, that many of the other vaccines that have the same immunogenicity are likely also to be efficacious. So I wouldn’t be surprised if we hit the new year with two or three vaccines, all of which could be distributed. And that’s why I’m quite optimistic of getting enough vaccinations done in the first quarter of next year that by spring things will start to look much more normal than they do now” - Sir John Bell, regius professor of medicine at Oxford University and a member of the government’s vaccine taskforce, on reasons to be optimistic following the Pfizer/BioNTech announcement.

“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”

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