Latest updates: NHS website unable to meet demand for boosters while its website also suggests no LFTs are currently available

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BBC One will broadcast a pre-recorded address to the nation from Keir Starmer at 7pm in response to Boris Johnson’s own remarks on coronavirus booster vaccines, Labour has said.

Today is the first day that people aged 30 to 39 can officially book a booster jab in England. Although the website has been overwhelmed (see 10.46am), NHS Digital says more than 140,000 people have managed to book vaccine appointments this morning.

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Source: The Guardian