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13 Dec, 8 tweets, 2 min read
Welcome to Britain’s fightback against omicron…

➡️Day one of Boris Johnson's war on the new variant saw booster confusion, a crashed NHS website and a shortage of lateral flow tests

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Boris Johnson, who loves nothing more than a wartime analogy, had fired the starting gun on the latest battle against Covid-19 by making a live television appearance announcing his "Get Boosted Now" plan
💉The result was that Britain woke up to an NHS vaccine website that had crashed (and kept crashing through the course of the day) and a headlong rush for a booster
The day had started inauspiciously with Sajid Javid, the Health Secretary, announcing on the Today programme that he was "personally running" the booster programme
⏲️By 10am, Boris Johnson was arriving at the Stow Health Vaccination Centre in Westminster, close to Downing Street.

🗣️"We now want to hit warp speed," said the Prime Minister
In a sideroom, out of earshot of the people queueing for their jab, he told a television reporter: "Sadly, yes, omicron is producing hospitalisations and sadly at least one patient has been confirmed to have died with omicron"
💉Anybody trying for a booster had a wait. In some cases a very long wait.

⏲️At St Thomas’ Hospital in London there were reports of a seven and a half hour waiting time to receive a jab and a queue stretching 500 yards
The war against omicron is underway; the plans for battle are not entirely in place.

🔎Read the full analysis here 👇

telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/…

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