UK accelerates booster plan as Johnson warns of Omicron 'tidal wave'

Prime Minister Boris Johnson recorded an address to the nation at Downing Street (Kirsty O’Connor/PA)

The target for giving every adult in England a booster jab has been brought forward by a month over fears of a “tidal wave of Omicron” that could cause “very many deaths”.

Boris Johnson, in a pre-recorded address to the nation on Sunday evening, said Britain “must urgently reinforce our wall of vaccine protection” as he set a new deadline of jabbing everyone over 18 by the new year.