Brits queue for Christmas day jabs as Government to send Covid booster alert to mobile phones on Boxing Day

BRITS have put their Christmas dinners on hold to queue to get their life-saving booster jabs with the government set to send a UK-wide alert to mobile phones tomorrow.

Hero workers donning festive hats have sacrificed their Christmas Day to dish out vaccines after Boris Johnson urged all adults to get jabbed before the end of the year.

The NHS is continuing to rollout vaccines on Christmas Day and Boxing Day this year in a bid to protect people from Omicron.

A string of hugely positive studies show Omicron IS milder than other strains, with the first official UK report revealing the risk of hospitalisation is 50 to 70 per cent lower than with Delta.

Covid booster jabs protect against Omicron and offer the best chance to get through the pandemic, health officials have repeatedly said.

The Sun’s Jabs Army campaign is helping get the vital extra vaccines in Brits’ arms to ward off the need for any new restrictions.

A jingle jabs drive has opened up some 200,000 slots for vaccines over the festive weekend in clinics across the country including in London, Eastbourne, Hartlepool and Dewsbury.

And figures have revealed Britain has one of the best booster rollouts in the world.

While the vaccine rolling is steaming ahead, the government is due to send out a UK-wide mobile alert urging people to get their boosters, reports the Guardian.

Mobile operators including EE, Vodaphone and O2 have been asked by No10 to ping out the message on Boxing Day.

It comes after Covid ruined Christmas for 122,186 unlucky Brits who have tested positive on Christmas Eve and went into self isolation.

A further 23,719 people have tested positive for the Omicron variant in the UK yesterday.

And another 137 people died within 28 days of a positive PCR test.

But in news that will bring some festive cheer, there is a suggestion that Omicron could be fading in South Africa.

It gives Brits cause for hope, as the virus continues to spread across the country from its epicentre in London, which is home to the fastest rising cases in the country.