QUOTES OF THE DAY

“If you sail a massive liner across the Atlantic then it’s not really reasonable that you aren’t going to have to make at least one course correction during that voyage,”

- England’s deputy chief medical officer Professor Jonathan Van-Tam on the decision to offer people under the age of 30 alternatives to the AstraZeneca vaccine.

“The evidence is firming up and our review has concluded that while it’s a strong possibility, more work is needed to establish beyond all doubt that the vaccine has caused these sideeffects,”

- Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency chief executive

Dr June Raine, above.

“There isn’t a real plan around this and what I fear it will be is another example of the Government with a plan that doesn’t work, costing lots of taxpayer money, when I think the focus should be on getting as many people vaccinated as possible – that’s the light at the tunnel,” - Sir Keir Starmer criticises proposals to introduce coronavirus health certificates.

“Marcus has played a committed and inspirational role in speaking up for young people affected by poverty, keeping food on their table,”

- Kevin Courtney, joint general secretary of the NEU, praises Marcus Rashford after the organisation gave him the Fred & Anne Jarvis Award for fighting child food poverty.

“I feel thrilled and really happy and honoured, and I just hope it goes well for everybody,”

- Elle Taylor, 24, from Ammanford, on becoming the first Briton to receive the Moderna vaccine in the UK at West Wales General Hospital in Carmarthen.