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🔴Boris Johnson is to update the country in a 5pm press conference.

The PM's official spokesman told today's lobby briefing that it would focus on the booster campaign, rather than any new restrictions.

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💉Boris Johnson says it is "absolutely vital" that every eligible adults gets boosted as soon as possible.

"The doubling rate in some regions is also under two days and we're also seeing hospitalisations up a third in London," he says

🔻Admissions are starting to come down in some of the more vulnerable age group where boosters have already been given out.

From Monday, Boris Johnson adds, 12-to-15-year-olds can book in for a second dose of their vaccine
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📈Professor Chris Whitty says Britons must be "realistic" and "records will be broken a lot in the next few weeks as the rates continue to grow up.

Hospitalisations "remain flat" but have started to grow in some places, particularly London
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📱Boris Johnson says another "pingdemic" can be avoided by a change in Government rules.

This means the 10-day isolation period for omicron contacts has been replaced with a seven-day daily lateral flow testing requirement
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🗣️"I think what most people are doing, and I think this seems very sensible, is prioritising social interactions that really matter to them.

"And I think that's going to become increasingly important as we for example go into the Christmas period" Prof Chris Whitty has said

❌Prof Whitty says there is a "high chance" that his Christmas plans with family may be "interrupted"

A large number of doctors and nurses are going to get Covid at the same time as part of a "very sharp peak"
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