Boris Johnson has launched an "emergency" Covid booster campaign to try to head off a "tidal wave" of cases of the omicron variant and avoid risk of a new year lockdown.

The Prime Minister unveiled a plan called "Get Boosted Now" to offer a Covid boost jab to every eligible adult in by the end of the month - four weeks earlier than planned.

To hit this target Number 10 said the National Health Service will have to offer jabs to 18 million people in as many days - one million a day.

Mr Johnson said the huge effort - which will see Army divide the country into regions - was necessary to preserve the country's hardwon freedoms from the coronavirus pandemic.

In what Mr Johnson described as the "omicron emergency boost" programme, the Prime Minister said: "No-one should be in any doubt: there is a tidal wave of Omicron coming,

"And I’m afraid it is now clear that two doses of vaccine are simply not enough to give the level of protection we all need."

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