Sajid Javid has warned the country finds itself "in a race between the virus and vaccines" as cases of the Omicron variant of coronavirus are spreading widely.

Boris Johnson announced last night new plans to deliver one million Covid vaccinations a day, in an emergency programme to head off the risk of a new year lockdown, far higher than the previously daily record.

In the face of a “tidal wave” of omicron cases, the Prime Minister's “Get Boosted Now” plan has brought forward the target of jabbing every eligible adult in England to the end of the year, four weeks earlier than planned.

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