Boris Johnson will wait until later next week to decide whether further Covid restrictions are needed
The prime minister wants more time as the festive break means recent data is not considered reliable enough to draw firm conclusions about the spread of the Omicron variant.Yesterday booster jabs were estimated to offer 88 per cent protection against hospital admission. However, ministers were alarmed by a second day of more than 2,000 virus patients being admitted to wards in England.
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