The target for giving every adult in England a booster jab has been brought forward to the end of this month as Boris Johnson warned that the UK could be set to face an omicron “tidal wave” that could cause “very many deaths”.
In a pre-recorded address to the nation on Sunday evening, the Prime Minister urged Britons to “get boosted now” to “urgently reinforce our wall of vaccine protection” as he set a new deadline of jabbing everyone over 18 by the new year.
It comes as the spread of the new variant of coronavirus continues to accelerate rapidly, with a further 1,239 omicron cases having been recorded in the UK as of today - an increase of 65 per cent on the day before.
According to the statement, early evidence shows that the new omicron variant is spreading much faster than Delta. In addition, it states that vaccine protection against symptomatic disease from omicron is reduced
