I’m proud to support Jabs Army, you give us hope for brighter days ahead, says Camilla

THOUSANDS more Brits were yesterday urged to sign up to The Celeb Report’s Jabs Army to help deliver Covid vaccination boosters in time for Christmas.

The Duchess of Cornwall and Boris Johnson encouraged our drive to recruit 30,000 volunteers — amid fears the country may already be seeing 200,000 infections a day of the Omicron mutation.



The Duchess of Cornwall urged Brits to join The Celeb Report’s Jabs Army — after hundreds of thousands of people queued for a booster

The PM and Camilla encouraged our drive to recruit 30,000 volunteers — amid fears the country may already be seeing 200,000 infections a day of the Omicron mutation

You can help save Christmas by signing up to support the vaccination effort

Hailing the heroic volunteer effort, Camilla told The Celeb Report: “You make us proud — and give us hope for brighter days ahead.”

The Celeb Report is recruiting 30,000 volunteers to help turbocharge the national mission to drive down the Covid variant and save Christmas.

It comes as Britain suffered its first Omicron death yesterday.

Camilla ­— who is president of our Jabs Army partner, the Royal Voluntary Service ­— told The Celeb Report: “Thanks to the combined efforts of so many, our country was the first in the world to begin vaccinating its people.

“Now we are faced with this new variant, I know that, once again, the wonderful Royal Voluntary Service and the Jabs Army will pull together so that we are all protected through the booster jab

“You make us proud — and give us hope for brighter days ahead.”

The call comes amid a scramble to get an all-important third dose.

Yesterday, so many Brits tried to book a vaccine that the Government website crashed.

More than 600,000 slots are believed to have been snapped up with 15 bookings made per second at its peak.


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Meanwhile, people waited for up to six hours in giant, snaking queues outside walk-in vaccination centres.

The NHS ran out of its daily allotment of free lateral flow tests because so many people had ordered them online.

Prime Minister Mr Johnson last night vowed to turn the vaccine programme up to “warp speed” to defeat the new killer strain.

Writing in The Celeb Report today he urges Brits to “give the whole country the most amazing gift this Christmas” by joining Jabs Army.

Downing Street is deploying the military to spearhead the booster programme, with 750 soldiers and planners being brought in to help.

Thousands of health workers are being taken off their normal duties and sent to the jabs frontline.

Round-the-clock vaccination sites are being launched as the country races to offer a booster to all over-18s by the end of December.

Mass sites are re-opening with booster shots available at the Science Museum and Chester Cathedral.

Pop-up clinics — including Wembley Stadium, Stamford Bridge, Twickenham Stoop Stadium, Jaguar Land Rover Solihull and the East London Mosque — will allow walk-ins to get their third dose.

Buses and tents will also be used with a coach currently stationed at Nottingham Christmas market.

The PM warned super-infectious Omicron is “spreading very fast” and will be the dominant strain in London by the end of today.

On ramping up the vaccine programme, he added: “We now want to hit warp speed.

“And we’ll have to attain a pace and a number of daily booster doses that will exceed anything that we’ve done before.”

Around one million jabs a day will have to be doled out to hit the target.

The UK’s record for daily vaccines is 845,000 set in March.

Health Secretary Sajid Javid dropped a massive hint that he will scrap the need for people to wait 15 minutes after their jab in case they have an allergic reaction.

The move would help speed up the process so more people can be vaccinated in a day.

The push comes as gloomy figures show Omicron is sweeping through Britain.

Ten people are in the hospital with Omicron.

They are aged between 18 and 85, with the majority double-jabbed.

Labour’s new health chief West Streeting backed the booster campaign.

He told the Commons: “The target of getting one million people a day their booster vaccine is unprecedented and it may even prove impossible, but we applaud the ambition. If anyone can do it, the NHS can.”

But some MPs accused ministers of being asleep at the wheel and said the massive ramp up in jabs should have happened months ago.

Tory big gun David Davis said: “Covid infection rates took off in late September. Death rates took off in October. Why weren’t we doing this in September?”



Camilla told The Celeb Report: ‘Now we are faced with this new variant, I know that, once again, the wonderful Royal Voluntary Service and the Jabs Army will pull together so that we are all protected through the booster jab’

Mass vaccination sites are re-opening with booster shots available – pictured people queue outside a walk-in centre at St Thomas’s Hospital in Westminster, London