UK booster jab rollout to increase to 1m a day to battle Omicron ‘tidal wave’
by Jessica Elgot, Aubrey Allegretti, Haroon Siddique from World news | The Guardian on (#5SZ80)
Army to be deployed as part of effort to offer Covid vaccine dose to every adult by end of month
Boris Johnson is gambling on an unprecedented ramping up of vaccinations, rolling out 1m booster jabs a day to stem an incoming tidal wave of Omicron" and avoid imposing further restrictions.
The army will be deployed across the country to help rapidly accelerate the vaccine programme and GPs will be told to cancel appointments to dedicate resources to offering vaccines to every UK adult by the end of December.
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