Summary

  1. A record number of people were vaccinated in the UK on Saturday - 598,389 received their first dose
  2. Public Health England's Dr Susan Hopkins expects to start seeing the impact of vaccinations in the next two weeks
  3. Relaxing restrictions will need to be done "very cautiously", Dr Hopkins says
  4. The World Health Organization has called on richer nations to commit to donating any excess vaccine supplies
  5. UK ministers say it is too soon to talk about donating some of its vaccines to other countries
  6. UK-EU relations are being "reset" after the EU triggered a provision in the Brexit deal to control Covid vaccine exports
  7. Israel says it is transferring 5,000 doses of Covid vaccine to immunise frontline Palestinian health workers