THEY SAID WHAT?

“Covid-19 has changed our world. It has brought people, communities and nations together, and driven them apart. It has shown what humans are capable of – both positively and negatively”

- WHO director-general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, above.

“The investigation into this case suggests that the infection was spread from humans to animal, and not the other way round. At this time, there is no evidence that pets can transmit the disease to humans”

- Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, after a pet cat fell ill with coronavirus in the UK.

“I think this was outrageous that the Government finally confirmed it three hours before it was implemented so that didn’t give anyone enough time to travel home if they needed to”

- Sophia Fadil, 32, from Brighton, who is currently on holiday in the Alicante region of Spain.

“I’ve always wanted to lose weight for ages and, I think like many people, I struggle with my weight – I go up and down”

- Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

“Racism and its effects still isn’t really understood here, and because our system is essentially a class-based system it gets swallowed up in that paradigm, as the working class will say, ‘Well, join the queue’. It is a particularly different struggle, so it is very difficult to get people to acknowledge that there is a specificity to racism and how it affects people of colour in this country”

- Actor David Harewood.