"We have had some ... irritating incidents overnight, and I understand that a number of people have been arrested but there are no security concerns," Queen Elizabeth Hospital medical director David Rosser told reporters on Tuesday, according to British news reports.
"I understand that a number of people turned up claiming to be members of Malala's family – which we don't believe to be true – and have been arrested," he added.
Every attempt to reach Malala has been averted by police, who also say that, despite Rosser's remarks, no arrests have been made. Any well-wisher hoping to see her has been stopped at the gate, and questioned, say reports.
On Tuesday, a week after two gunmen intercepted her school bus in the former Taliban stronghold of the Swat valley because she had expressed the opinion that girls should go to school, Malala was spending her first full day in the U.K. She had been flown into Birmingham Airport on an air ambulance on Monday, before being taken to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
Regarding her condition, Rosser said Tuesday that doctors believed she had "a chance of making a good recovery."
"Clearly," he said, "it would be inappropriate on every level, not least for her, to put her through all of this if there was no hope of decent recovery."
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