It's part of a ‘national effort’ to aid the booster campaign, Labour has suggested.
Christmas shoppers should be able to get Covid-19 jabs while buying presents, as part of a ‘national effort’ to aid the booster campaign,The opposition party’s intervention comes as scientists said that booster shots are likely to be effective against the Omicron variant, which is spreading rapidly across the UK.
Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting said the Government should ‘pull out all the stops’ to meet the Prime Minister’s target of having offered a booster jab to all those aged over 18 by the end of January. It follows an analysis by the UK Health Security Agency showing that the AstraZeneca and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines provide ‘much lower’ levels of protection against symptomatic infection with Omicron compared to Delta.But it said a booster dose gives around 70% to 75% protection.
Mr Streeting said: ‘Our best defence against Omicron is urgently ramping up the booster programme, but the Government is not currently on track to get everyone boosted by the end of January.‘Vaccine centres should be opened in shopping centres where people will be doing their Christmas shopping, we need to remobilise the army of retired medics and volunteers, and boosters should be open to all adults.
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