(ANSA) - LONDON, 01 NOV - New vaccine boom in the United Kingdom with 820,000 boosters (or third doses) injected in the last 3 days in the country, which since this week has also opened access without reservation to the so-called drive-in administration centers: Prime Minister Boris Johnson, whose government has bet everything on a new accelerated vaccine - and in particular on the third doses, reserved in the Kingdom for all those over 50 who have received the second dose for 6 months, to vulnerable people and to whom works in health or social care services - to try to contain the effects of the recent rebound of infections from Covid without introducing the restrictions that have been widely lifted since July 19.
Johnson also noted that the booster - which he called "a vital additional protection against Covid in the winter months" - has now reached a total of 8 million people in the country.
To which must be added about 80% of the entire population over 12 vaccinated up to now with 2 doses.
Meanwhile, the new cases registered today drop slightly to 38,000, for the third day below 40,000;
with the deaths recorded in the last 24 hours stable at 74 and the total hospital admissions also for now settled below 9,000: far from the peaks of 39,000 of the pre-vaccine waves of the pandemic.
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