BBC political journalist and commentator Andrew Marr has said on his Sunday morning TV programme today that he missed last week's show because he came down with Covid - which he caught at the G7 in Cornwall.

His announcement comes as yet another business in Falmouth was forced to close this weekend because of disease.

The Stable in the Old Custom House in Arweack Street has closed after a member of staff tested positive for the virus. All staff are now having to isolate and have tests.

The news comes as there are increasing demands that a vaccination centre be set up in Falmouth to push the vaccination of 18 to 29-year-olds.

Vaccination centres are run by NHS, and will take the NHS to set one up.

The high spike of cases in Falmouth and St Ives have been linked to the G7 summit. A thousand journalist from all over the world descended on the Media centre based in the Maritime Museum during the June event.

Opening The Andrew Marr Show on BBC1 this morning he thanked one of his colleagues for covering for him last week and said he got coronavirus despite being "double jabbed earlier in the Spring and felt, if not King of the World, almost entirely immune and yet I got it."

He said: "I had a bit a of Covid last week despite being double jabbed and very nasty it was too."

He told London mayor Sadiq Khan that he got it at the G7 in Cornwall.

Government scientific adviser Sir Peter Harby, a guest on the programme, said that he was unlucky because the vaccines had been remarkably effective at preventing hospitalisation and deaths, but were less effective at preventing infections themselves. He said Mr Marr wasn't hospitalised but that was because of the vaccination.

Mr Marr said for it was 'really, really quite unpleasant' and was 'pretty bloody' and he felt it should be explained to people that you may be double vaccinated but that doesn't mean you won't get Covid.

He said his early symptoms were simply like a summer cold but he had no idea that he had Covid and wondered if the symptoms on the NHS website are out of date.

The admission comes as the Conservative led Cornwall Council has denied there is a link between the G7 and a rise in cases in Falmouth, St Ive and Newquay following the G7 summit. While Tory MP for Falmouth and Truro Cherilyn Mackrory dismissed the claims as scaremongering.

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Falmouth councillor and Labour group leader Jayne Kirkham called for the council Cornwall public health to pressure the NHS into setting up a vaccination centre in Falmouth.

She also called for more support for more financial help for businesses which aare being forced to close.

"We do have a Conservative led council now who sell themselves on the basis that allied with Conservative MPs there will be a very strong voice for Cornwall at Government level.

"So I am expecting them to use that voice now."

She added: "The sooner Falmouth gets vaccinated, the sooner this spike will be over. If this spreads to other Cornish towns during July and August we have huge visitor numbers here we could be in some real difficulty.

"It could be a lot of people effected, with their health or economically all across Cornwall.

"If we can get on top of it quickly and stop messing about about whether to set up a vaccination centre then it would be a lot quicker and a lot cleverer.

"Businesses are being affected not only by Covid but by a lack of staff and are opening and closing all over the place.

"They are going to lose money and they will need some support. Everyone's saying about the isolation payments of £500 but I don't think you can get them unless you are full-time or part-time employee and a lot of these people are on zero hours contracts."