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make no mistake, it s quite significant, the acceleration of the booster alert in england, with the prime minister saying extra resources would be given to scotland, wales and northern ireland, to accelerate their own lead. in england, he is talking about bringing forward a target from seven weeks to three weeks, so the previous target was to offer everyone a boosterjab who was eligible, adults who were eligible, by the end of january. now they say they want to get those jabs into peoples charms by the end of the year, seven weeks condensed into three. that is going to be difficult. looking at the numbers, thatis difficult. looking at the numbers, that is 80 million people, we think, they would have to jab in 19 days before the end of the year, so that s roughly a million people a day. yesterday, a pretty good day for boosters, but it was only 483,000, so they will have to double that to hit that target. how will they do that? more military planning teams, more sites, more mobile units