
UK scrambles for booster shots and tests amid fears of Omicron 'tidal wave'
CNN
The UK's Covid response was in chaos on Tuesday, with the NHS website having crashed due to demand for Covid-19 booster appointments, lateral flow test kits no longer available to order online and people queuing for hours to get shots.
In the run-up to a holiday season that the British government promised would return to normality after last year's heavily restricted affair, a weary nation is instead being wracked by a new crisis: Omicron.
The scramble for booster shots and tests comes just days after UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a slew of new Covid-19 measures in the face of an incoming "tidal wave" of infections from the Omicron variant.

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