This weekend, boosters at horsecourses and Christmas markets as well as football stadiums are among the 3,000 vaccination sites

  • Nearly three thousand locations will be used this weekend as vaccination centers. 
  • The NHS is ‘pulling out all the stops’ to make it as easy as possible to get a booster jab 
  • In an effort to increase work productivity, pharmacists as well as GPs will have more money available to them to give jabs in the Christmas period. 










This weekend, almost three thousand locations will serve as vaccine centres.

The NHS is ‘pulling out all the stops’ to make it as easy as possible to get a booster jab, said the NHS’s medical director Professor Stephen Powis.

In an effort to increase work productivity, pharmacists as well as GPs can be paid more for jabs administered during this festive season. 

People wait in a queue outside University College London Hospital vaccination centre to receive their the Covid-19 vaccine or booster in London

To receive the Covid-19 booster or vaccine in London, people wait outside University College London Hospital’s vaccination center.

Covid hospital admissions have spiked by more than a third in a week in Britain's Omicron hotspot of London, official data shows. Some 199 infected patients were admitted to wards in London on Tuesday, the most recent day UKHSA figures are available for

According to official data, the number of covid hospital admissions has risen by more than three times in one week in London’s Omicron Hotspot. 

The fee will rise from £15 to £20 per dose from December 25 to January 3. 

It comes after London’s vaccine shortage forced some jab appointments to be cancelled yesterday.

Boris Johnson promised that he would give every eligible adult a booster dose by the end the year. 

Staff will be vaccinating at 2,900 centres this weekend, including at three football grounds – Anfield, Stamford Bridge and Wembley – and Chelmsford Racecourse. 

The Christmas Market is also available at Chester Cathedral.

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