Three people have been sent home from Glastonbury festival after being diagnosed with swine flu. According to reports, two of those diagnosed with the virus are students and one is a child aged 10.

Organisers have said the trio were isolated after showing symptoms, and pose no further risk to anyone at the festival. A spokesperson for Somerset NHS also said they have mild symptoms and that "there was no need for alarm among festivalgoers".

Glastonbury organisers put out a statement shortly after the swine flu outbreak last month in which they said they were "monitoring all developments" in the run up to festival. "This was anticipated," said a Glastonbury spokesperson yesterday. "There is no more risk here than anywhere. The figure of three in 177,000 people is regarded as very low."

The recent swine flu outbreak was declared a pandemic on 11 June. The last update from the World Health Organisation put total cases at 59,814, with 263 deaths.

In other Glastonbury news: The death of Michael Jackson earlier this week led to a slew of tribute covers of the late musician's songs. Dizzee Rascal played a number of his songs during his packed Pyramid stage performance yesterday, Jamie Cullum covered Thriller and Little Boots played a version of Earth Song during her Guardian Lounge gig. Franz Ferdinand also paid tribute, shouting "Shamone motherfuckers!" during their Other Stage headline set.

Meanwhile Jarvis Cocker chose not to mention the death of the man he waggled his bum at during the 1996 Brit Awards. Instead, he was treated to a stage invasion of his own when a fan grabbed the microphone during his John Peel stage performance last night and shouted: "Without this man, Britpop would have been shit. He gave it integrity, which no one else did." Cocker told the crowd he was "embarrassed" by the comments.