Covid: UK aims for 500,000 jabs a day in bid to outpace Omicron variant

The Guardian says Ministers are targeting a return to half a million UK Covid jabs a day as the waiting time for boosters was cut to three months in a bid to outpace the Omicron variant that scientists believe is already spreading in the community.

Confirmed Omicron cases rose to 11 in England and Scotland on Monday, with scientific advisers braced for hundreds more to be detected in the next week or so.

From Tuesday, masks will be mandatory on public transport including airports and stations and in shops – including hair salons and takeaways but not pubs or restaurants – to slow the spread of Omicron, which is feared to more transmissible with the potential to evade vaccines.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/29/covid-uk-aims-500000-jabs-a-day-in-bid-to-outpace-omicron-variant