Months. everything we have had thrown at us from the need to create 34,000 thrown at us from the need to create 311,000 beds for patients who might have had coronavirus right at the beginning of the pandemic, february, march, last year, we then had an amazing expansion of critical care facilities, injanuary amazing expansion of critical care facilities, in january this amazing expansion of critical care facilities, injanuary this year, when we had a very large number, you know, 35,000 patients in hospital with covid, we then got the vaccination campaign going. we have then extended it to start doing boosters for older age groups and the more vulnerable. every time one of these challenges comes along, the nhs has absolutely, thanks to our fantastic front line staff, has rallied round and has done what is needed. we will be doing the same again. ijust think needed. we will be doing the same again. i just think we all needed. we will be doing the same again. ijust think we all need to kno
The headlines. the nhs gears up for a major expansion of its vaccine booster programme, with all adults to be offered the jab by the end of january. leaked minutes of a sage meeting, seen by the bbc, say while the impact of the new variant remains highly uncertain , a very stringent public health response may be required. fears of the omicron variant spreading prompts people to start cancelling christmas parties and get togethers. tens of thousands of people have spent a fifth night without power in north england and scotland after storm arwen destroyed infrastructure. there s more disruption for students as staff at dozens of universities begin a three day strike across the uk. millions of pounds are pledged to a new hiv action plan, as world aids day is marked around the globe.
Its potential threat. in germany, the rollout of vaccines for children between five and 11 years old has been brought forward. the united states, japan and singapore are among the latest countries to tighten travel restrictions to try to contain omicron. and in england, the government is gearing up for a major expansion of the vaccine booster programme, with hospitals and thousands of community sites set to offer the jab to help fight the newly discovered omicron variant. in england, a further 14 million adults are being offered a booster. the government says all adults should have been offered a booster by the end of january. some 400 military personnel will help out at 1,500 vaccination centres across england to ramp up the booster programme. borisjohnson has promised to throw everying at the covid i9 vaccination progamme and called for another great british vaccination effort , while scientists try to find out more about the new variant. but new documents have revealed the uk gov
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