THOUSANDS more Brits were yesterday urged to sign up to Trending In The News’s Jabs Army to help deliver Covid vaccination boosters in time for Christmas.
The Duchess of Cornwall and Boris Johnson encouraged our drive to recruit 30,000 volunteers — amid fears the country may already be seeing 200,000 infections a day of the Omicron mutation.
Hailing the heroic volunteer effort, Camilla told Trending In The News: “You make us proud — and give us hope for brighter days ahead.”
Trending In The News is recruiting 30,000 volunteers to help turbocharge the national mission to drive down the Covid variant and save Christmas.
It comes as Britain suffered its first Omicron death yesterday.
Camilla — who is president of our Jabs Army partner, the Royal Voluntary Service — told Trending In The News: “Thanks to the combined efforts of so many, our country was the first in the world to begin vaccinating its people.
“Now we are faced with this new variant, I know that, once again, the wonderful Royal Voluntary Service and the Jabs Army will pull together so that we are all protected through the booster jab
“You make us proud — and give us hope for brighter days ahead.”
The call comes amid a scramble to get an all-important third dose.
Yesterday, so many Brits tried to book a vaccine that the Government website crashed.
More than 600,000 slots are believed to have been snapped up with 15 bookings made per second at its peak.
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Meanwhile, people waited for up to six hours in giant, snaking queues outside walk-in vaccination centres.
The NHS ran out of its daily allotment of free lateral flow tests because so many people had ordered them online.
Prime Minister Mr Johnson last night vowed to turn the vaccine programme up to “warp speed” to defeat the new killer strain.
Writing in Trending In The News today he urges Brits to “give the whole country the most amazing gift this Christmas” by joining Jabs Army.
Downing Street is deploying the military to spearhead the booster programme, with 750 soldiers and planners being brought in to help.
Thousands of health workers are being taken off their normal duties and sent to the jabs frontline.
Round-the-clock vaccination sites are being launched as the country races to offer a booster to all over-18s by the end of December.
Mass sites are re-opening with booster shots available at the Science Museum and Chester Cathedral.
Pop-up clinics — including Wembley Stadium, Stamford Bridge, Twickenham Stoop Stadium, Jaguar Land Rover Solihull and the East London Mosque — will allow walk-ins to get their third dose.
