Watch live as the winner of the Nobel Prize in medicine is announced

Watch live as the first of the 2021 Nobel Prizes is announced in the field of physiology or medicine.

A panel at Stockholm’s Karolinska Institute is due to announce the recipient this morning.

The prestigious award will come with a gold medal and 10 million Swedish kronor (£844,000).

Last year’s prize went to three scientists who discovered the liver-ravaging hepatitis C virus, a breakthrough that led to cures for the deadly disease and tests to keep the scourge from spreading through blood banks.

Pioneers of mRNA Covid-19 vaccines and immune system research are tipped for the medicine prize.