People will be able to get a COVID-19 booster on Christmas Day as part of NHS England's 'jingle jab' campaign
programme, said:"This Christmas, before sitting down to your dinner with your family, I would encourage anyone not already boosted to come forward, book an appointment and get the gift of a jab."campaign after it emerged that the UK, EU and US have received more doses of COVID-19 jabs in the last six weeks than African countries have in all of 2021.
Vaccine equity campaigners say that governments like the UK risk"trapping the world in an endless cycle of variants, boosters, restrictions and even lockdowns" if more people are not vaccinated in the global south. G7 countries are on course to have 1.4 billon extra doses by March 2022, even after giving all adults a booster - and yet they are failing to deliver on donation pledges.
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