Over 93,000 cases have been recorded in the past 2a hours a new record for a third consecutive day. documents from the government s scientific advisory group sage, seen by the bbc, suggest additional measures could be needed to slow the spread of the virus. 0ur health editor hugh pym has this report. it was a record day for boosters and unlike many other sites this week, there was no queueing at this walk in centre in barnsley, set up yesterday. we ve got a lot of vaccinators on site and a lot of admin support, so patients are getting a really good experience. they are in, they are out and away. but there is a warning that to slow the spread of the virus, the vaccination effort on its own may not be enough. papers from the expert sage committee seen by the bbc suggest that covid hospital admissions could double by the end of this
Welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. the 0micron strain of coronavirus is continuing to spread rapidly around the world. here in the uk, over 93,000 cases have been recorded in the past 2a hours alone a new record for a third consecutive day. documents from the british government s scientific advisory group sage, seen by the bbc, suggest additional measures could be needed to slow the spread of the virus. 0ur health editor hugh pym has this report. it was a record day for boosters and unlike many other sites this week, there was no queueing at this walk in centre in barnsley, set up yesterday. we ve got a lot of vaccinators on site and a lot of admin support, so patients
Everyone who has come forward, whether you ve had to queue around the block at a walk in centre or whether you booked online. and, of course, on behalf of the whole country, i want to thank our nhs, our gps, our pharmacists, who, with barely a day s notice, 48 hours notice, have so accelerated the programme that we began this week with the biggest vaccination monday ever in england and yesterday the biggest booster day yet, with more than 650,000 boosters delivered across the whole uk. and across the country, after all they ve been through, those teams are going to keep going through christmas and beyond. christina pagel is a member of independent sage, a independent group of scientists who at times have been critical of the way the government has handled the pandemic. the use it has made of some the
Is announcing these things sort of a day in advance. it doesn t really help. that would be my blame. most of the people here have come to this walk in centre to get a booster. the government wants to get more of the centres up and running in order to meet their target of ensuring 1 million people a day can book a booster by the end of the year. on monday, the nhs website was under extreme pressure. though 390,000 people did manage to book an appointment and nhs england is urging people to keep trying to book. at this centre in nottingham, they waited up to two hours for theirjabs. we tried to get on the website to book a vaccine, and it had just crashed. so we ve just come to the walk in. you ve got to get protected, that s the end of it. much of the vaccine programme has until now been delivered by gps. some now fear being overwhelmed by their workload. we have been really struggling in terms of meeting the demand from the patients. so i think it will be really, really hard, really challenging,
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Being offered third doses. meanwhile the nhs website for booking a shot in england has been overwhelmed. and the government s online service for ordering rapid tests has been suspended because of high demand. our health correspondent dominic hughes reports on how the government now hopes to jab a million people a day. the race between the virus and the vaccine has intensified once again. and, at a vaccination clinic in central london this morning, some sobering news from the prime minister. sadly, at least one patient has now been confirmed to have died with omicron. so, i think the idea that this is somehow a milder version of the virus, i think that s something we need to set on one side. in stockport, greater manchester, this walk in centre has seen steady business, particularly as concerns grow around the omicron variant. all the time, we feel like we are getting more people coming through. it does feel we have had queues around the building.
That this is somehow a milder version of the virus, i think that s something we need to set on one side. in stockport, greater manchester, this walk in centre has seen steady business, particularly as concerns grow around the omicron variant. all the time, we feel like we are getting more it does feel we ve had queues around the building. so, there s a definite energy and demand. and that s people coming for their first jabs, second jabs and their boosters. there s still lots we don t know about this new variant. but one thing is clear, and that s vaccines remain our best defence against developing serious illness. against developing serious illness, and that s why it s as important as ever to get jabs into as many arms as quickly as possible. now the booster programme has been expanded, offering jabs to all eligible over 18s by the end of the month, a significant challenge for an already hard pressed health service. if that offer of a booster
There is obviously something going on there. what the department of health will say is that there are going to be teething problems after the announcement. there is a different way in england, at least, that you can get a booster shot, that you can get a booster shot, thatis that you can get a booster shot, that is to go along to a walk in centre. you go online and enter vic a walking appointment in a search engine and it should show you the nearest site where you do not need an appointment. those walk in centres should be available to everyone now over the age of 18 from today. we are hearing reports of people going to the walk in centre and people saying there s too much demand and we cannot offer it. it might not be straightforward but there are different ways to access there are different ways to access the appointment. to go through what other nations of the uk are doing.