Coronavirus news – live: Hancock rules out ditching support bubbles and tells shops to ban non-mask wearers

Patients have begun receiving their coronavirus jabs at the new mass vaccination centre at Robertson House in Stevenage.

Margaret Austin, 86, from Broxbourne, in Hertfordshire, was the first member of the public to receive an injection this morning.

She said: "It's really strange being out for the first time in six months. A funny feeling but I'm really, really pleased and relieved to be getting my vaccine."

After receiving a dose of the Oxford/AstraZeneca jab, she said: "I feel fine."

The great-grandmother added: "I didn't even feel it. It was so easy."

Police bosses have acknowledged some officers "may get it wrong" when enforcing England's coronavirus regulations and that people are becoming "fed up" with ongoing national lockdown restrictions.

Hardyal Dhindsa, police and crime commissioner of Derbyshire Police, said officers had a "very difficult job in really trying circumstances" due to the "ever-changing" Covid-19 restrictions.

It comes after the force handed out £200 fines to two women who drove separately to go for a walk at a remote beauty spot situated around five miles from their homes.

Mr Dhindsa said the incident "could have been dealt with differently" and that the force was "big enough to apologise" if a review found that the officers had acted in error.

An NHS hospital's oxygen supply has reached a "critical situation" as staff treat a rising number of Covid-19 patients.

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust said in a letter to staff that the amount of oxygen used to treat patients at Southend Hospital should be reduced.

The document, shown to the BBC, said: "We have reached a critical situation with oxygen supply. It is imperative we use oxygen safely and efficiently.

"All patients should have a target saturation of 88-92%. Patients with a saturation above 92% which are on oxygen should have their oxygen weaned within the target range.

"I can assure all that maintaining saturations within this target range is safe and no patient will come to harm as a result.

"It is imperative that this is acted on immediately."

Online supermarket Ocado has become the first major food retailer to warn the availability of some products is being impacted by pandemic-related staff absences in its supply chain.

With more staff off sick or forced to isolate, some grocery suppliers are having to consolidate their lines.

"Staff absences across the supply chain may lead to an increase in product substitutions for a small number of customers as some suppliers consolidate their offering to maintain output," an Ocado spokeswoman said.

Ocado has seen sales soar since March as the pandemic has generated huge demand for home delivery of groceries.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak will give an economic update in an oral statement to the House of Commons this afternoon, according to the Labour whips' office.

Mainland China has seen its biggest daily increase in Covid-19 cases in more than five months, as new infections in Hebei province surrounding Beijing continue to rise.

A county in northeastern Heilongjiang province moved into lockdown today after reporting new coronavirus infections, state television reported.

Hebei accounted for 82 of the 85 new local infections reported on 10 January, the National Health Commission said in a statement, with Liaoning province also reporting two new cases and Beijing reporting one new case. The country also saw 18 new imported infections from overseas.

The total number of new Covid-19 cases stood at 103, the highest since 127 cases were reported on 30 July.

Professor Chris Whitty said it would be possible to be reinfected with Covid-19 after people had been vaccinated but that cases would occur at a "much lower rate".

"The risk of getting Covid a second time if you've had it a first time are substantially reduced, probably between 80 per cent and 90 per cent at least over the first six months," England's chief medical officer told BBC Radio 5 Live.

"We are confident it reduces the risk but it doesn't reduce it to zero, so reinfection is a possibility and the same will be true after vaccination.

"Reinfections will occur but at a much lower rate."

Ryanair’s chief executive has demanded the UK’s “test before travel” scheme ends in February – to coincide with the government’s target to vaccinate the most vulnerable.

The government is to require people travelling to the UK by air, rail and sea to produce evidence of a negative coronavirus test taken within 72 hours of departure.

But Michael O’Leary said it should last only four weeks.

Travel correspondent Simon Calder has more details:

France should consider closing its borders with Britain and other countries that have a strong presence of the new variant of coronavirus first found in the UK, a French epidemiologist and government adviser has suggested.

"It is important that we consider whether we need to close the borders to a limited number of countries, notably the United Kingdom and Ireland," Arnaud Fontanet, a member of the scientific council that advises the government on Covid-19 policy, said on BFM television.

"This is certainly a point for the agenda. It is not up to the scientific council to decide this, but we want to raise the issue."

French authorities said on Sunday that the more infectious variant had now been detected in France's Mediterranean port of Marseille and in the Alps.

Professor Chris Whitty said face masks are extremely important and should not just be worn "as a fashion accessory".

"It's absolutely there to protect other people," England's chief medical officer told a Q&A on BBC Radio 5 Live.

"I really would encourage people - if they are going on buses or on the Tube or to the shops - and do it properly over the nose and mouth and not just as a fashion accessory.

"In terms of outdoor situations, the only risk outdoors is if you're in a crowded environment. Outdoors is much lower risk than indoors."