Daily Mirror – ‘Our country needs a booster’
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Daily Mirror – ‘Our country needs a booster’
The Daily Mirror claims there is a “crisis over top-up jabs”. The paper quotes Prof Neil Ferguson, the scientist whose modelling led to the first nationwide restrictions, speaking about a potential return of restrictions amid “low take-up, immunity waning, cases soaring and a new Delta variant”. “It’s critical we accelerate boosters,” the scientist says.
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