Watch in full: Boris Johnson announces new Covid booster targets

The target for giving every adult in England a booster jab has been brought forward to the end of this month as Boris Johnson warned that the UK could be set to face an omicron “tidal wave” that could cause “very many deaths”.

In a pre-recorded address to the nation on Sunday evening, the Prime Minister urged Britons to “get boosted now” to “urgently reinforce our wall of vaccine protection” as he set a new deadline of jabbing everyone over 18 by the new year.

It comes as the spread of the new variant of coronavirus continues to accelerate rapidly, with a further 1,239 omicron cases having been recorded in the UK as of today - an increase of 65 per cent on the day before.

[hondaeownerreviews]

Long live The Independent for not switching off comments like every other broadcaster/news channel.

[gerainthall]

Never in the field of human villainy has so much damage been done to so many by such a privileged few.

[arranrobeson]

I can smell the desperation though my phone. With God on our side hopefully this scam is coming to an end

[alisonlee]

Not listening to a word he says. Just here for the comments.

[Jay-erlg]

- on the first day of Christmas my PM gave to me - a blood clot in my artery - :/

[brotherd]

People that have complied need to admit they were fooled, lied to and tricked, then they need to get mad as hell about it

[JPnielsen]

It's just 1 jab for your freedom.
Actually 1 isn't good enough, but 2 will be.
Actually 2 isn't good enough, but we're sure this time that 3 will be.
Are people still falling for this?

[fmxryzi]

YOU WIN, I've followed Boris' orders and I went to my local newsagents and got a Cadburys Boost chocolate bar, Happy Now!!

[SNAFUferret]

The habitual liar raises the distraction level from 3 to 4. We've had ENOUGH of your disastrous tenure Boris.

[pauljackson]

Don't forget, Bozo was a member of the Bullingdon Club, at Oxford University.
One of the initiation rites of that club, was to go up to a homeless person on the street, and burn a £50 note in front of their face.
That's the moral caliber of the person that we have in No 10.

[rrecee]

“If you have to be persuaded, reminded, pressured, lied to, incentivized, coerced, bullied, socially shamed, guilt-tripped,
threatened, punished and criminalized ... If all of this is considered necessary to gain your compliance -- you can be absolutely certain that what is being promoted is not in your best interest.” Boris Johnson

[Eringobragh]

ZERO confirmed Omicron deaths around the world

[musaxcoco]

Imagine trying to convince those that haven't been vaccinated that it does work whilst trying to convince those that have been vaccinated that it doesn't 🥴😂 With the first two jabs being so Ineffective And the booster is the new life saver apparently Should we now skip the first two and go straight for a booster or wait for number 4 Or number 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10💉💰

[robertgreen]

This worm has got to be stopped for the sake of our children .

[herbertbovine]

I'm absolutely sure the 4th shot will solve everything. If not, then certainly the 5th and 6th will.

But, I swear, if the 7th shot doesn't finally get us back to normal then I'm definitely going to reconsider getting my 8th.

[gerainthall]

Never mind the 'tidal wave' of the omicron variant Boris. Where is the quantitative risk assessment data and report which demonstrates that the MHRA Yellow Card Vaccine Adverse Reports are not the result of COVID-19 vaccine adverse effects?

[robertgreen]

Come on people see what’s really going on and wakey wakey or we are doomed. The funny thing is he will get more support from the opposition than he will get from his own lot,

[musaxcoco]

"Why do the protected need to be protected from the unprotected by forcing the unprotected to use the protection that didn't protect the protected in the first place?"
- Unvaccinated 2021

[Jay-erlg]

- we are going into a new level of madness - embarrassing -

[duncaioan]

how is anyone still taking this crap serious ?