British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has ordered that vaccine booster jabs be brought forward by a month, as the nation’s medical advisers increased Britain’s five-stage COVID alert level from three to four. Level four means that “transmission is high and pressure on healthcare services is widespread and substantial or rising”, whereas level three meant that the epidemic was in general circulation.
1,239 cases of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 were reported on Sunday, bringing the country’s total of Omicron cases to 3,137, and Johnson has warned that Britain is facing a “tidal wave” of Omicron:
“No one should be in any doubt: there is a tidal wave of Omicron coming,” the British Prime Minister said in a televised address, after the country’s medical advisers raised the Covid alert level due to a “rapid increase” in infection from the variant.
