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Covid: UK aims for 500,000 jabs a day in bid to outpace Omicron variant

Ministers to ramp up vaccinations to 3.5m a week as minimum gap for boosters is halved to three months

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Ministers are targeting a return to half a million UK Covid jabs a day as the waiting time for boosters was cut to three months in a bid to outpace the Omicron variant that scientists believe is already spreading in the community.

Confirmed Omicron cases rose to 11 in England and Scotland on Monday, with scientific advisers braced for hundreds more to be detected in the next week or so.

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