Sajid Javid, UK health secretary, has admitted that non-urgent operations in England will be postponed as the NHS gears up for a “race” between the Omicron variant of coronavirus and a massive national campaign of booster jabs.
Javid said there were 10 people in English hospitals with the Omicron variant and none had so far died, but he added that the virus was spreading at a “phenomenal rate” and the country was facing a “tidal wave” of infections.
He said that the NHS would have to beat its previous record of 770,000 jabs per day if it was to meet the objective of offering every adult a booster jab by the end of the month that prime minister Boris Johnson has said is needed to tackle the “emergency”.
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