LONDON: Thousands of people in the UK spend a few minutes of Christmas to march under the winter sky to be vaccinated against Covid-19 as an Omicron variant encourages a surge in infection throughout the country.
The good health pharmacy in North London is one dozen vaccination sites that make their doors open Saturday to manage “JABLE JABS” in the midst of government encouragement to offer booster shots to all adults at the end of the year.
Phenyl Lalji Farmacist said the shop owner decided to remain open because they lost family members for a pandemic and wanted to do what they could to help others remain safe.
“His family clearly has a very difficult time so that his children want to make sure they can provide a maximum level of contribution to combat this Covid virus,” said Lalji BBC.
“It was a very difficult time for his family, and we just tried to make sure there was nothing to go through it.” The UK has expanded its booster program for the past two weeks, reopening the sports stadium and the cathedral as an inoculation hub, after the study showed that two vaccine doses were not enough to protect from the omicron variant which highly transplanted.
Even as a national health service race to vaccinate as many people as possible, the number of confirmed infections jumped past 100,000 last week for the first time during a pandemic.
Health Secretary Sajid Javid on Friday urges people to “make booster be part of your Christmas this year”, and praise those who work through the celebration period to send shots.
“I want to say thank you who don’t know severely and selflessly from the NHS and volunteers to sacrifice time with the people they love to give Jab who saved life through Christmas and boxing days this year, and help everyone to be driven now,” said Javid in a statement.
The threat of omicron underlined by data released by the office for national statistics, which estimates that 1.7 million people in the UK have Covid-19 in the week ended December 19, the highest number since the comparable number was first recorded in the fall of 2020.
While infection Rates increase, public health officials hope that broad vaccination will limit the number of people being hospitalized or eventually die of Covid-19.