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Johnson warns vs looming UK 'tidal wave' of Omicron
By Agence France-Presse
Dec 14, 2021 12:04 am

LONDON: United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Sunday (Monday in Manila) warned of a looming 'tidal wave' of Omicron and brought forward a target to give over-18s a booster jab by one month to the end of December.

'No one should be in any doubt: there is a tidal wave of Omicron coming,' he 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.

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