Extra vaccine sites, more appointments, additional volunteer vaccinators and military help are part of plans to achieve the prime minister's new target, to offer boosters to everyone over 18 in England before the new year. Hours after the UK’s Covid alert level was raised to four - meaning there is a high or rising amount of transmission - Boris Johnson declared "an emergency in our battle with the new variant Omicron". In a TV statement on Sunday, he brought forward the target date for all adults to be offered a jab - originally due to be by the end of January, while revealing the country faces a "tidal wave" of the strain. The moves comes after it emerged the first people with infections from the Omicron variant in the UK are being treated in hospital. The focus on jabs is backed up by early data showing a third booster dose prevents about 75% of people getting any Covid symptoms from Omicron. There are, however, new restrictions in place including working from home guidance, which is being reintroduced from today.
Boosters are already available to over-30s in Scotland and Northern Ireland. And Scotland - which has the highest rate of booster jabs of all the UK nations, according to First Minister Nicola Sturgeon - will be giving boosters to those aged 18 to 29 later in the week. Additional measures may also be needed. Politicians in Wales say new restrictions are likely "in the next few weeks" to deal with the variant. It’s a "fast-moving form of coronavirus” which could lead to large numbers of people needing treatment from an already under-pressure NHS, says First Minister Mark Drakeford. Scientists at this point, according to Mr Johnson, cannot say Omicron is less severe, but they are "confident that with a third dose, a booster dose, we can all bring our level of protection back up".
To minimise disruption if someone you know has tested positive for the virus in England, fully vaccinated people will need to take daily lateral flow tests for seven days. From Tuesday people do not need to isolate if the tests remain negative and they have had at least two vaccine doses. This change in guidance, the government says, "aims to reduce pressures on people's everyday lives" - but the prime minister admits the new jabs target means some medical appointments will need to be postponed. It won't be easy to expand the booster programme at such a pace, says our political editor Laura Kuenssberg. But there needs to be a significant acceleration of it, according to our health correspondent Nick Triggle. The pace has to change - and quickly, he says.

There are endless scenes of devastation along the 227-mile (365km) path of powerful tornadoes which destroyed towns in Kentucky. It’s the most devastating tornado event in the US state's history, according to governor Andy Beshear, who says the number of deaths is likely to pass 100. Eighty deaths have been confirmed so far and hopes of finding survivors are fading as rescuers search debris. "Nothing that was standing in the direct line of [one] tornado is still standing," says Mr Beshear. President Joe Biden has declared a major federal disaster in Kentucky and aid will be made available for the hardest-hit areas. "We're still hoping as we move forward for some miracles to find more people," the governor says. However, no survivors have been found since Saturday.

After a turbulent few weeks, I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! has crowned a winner. Singer Frankie Bridge, actor Simon Gregson and soap star Danny Miller made it to the final three and one of them now has the coveted crown. If you didn’t watch it and plan to, or haven’t seen or heard anything about it yet, we won't spoil it for you. But here are some quotes from the winner who says it’s "the best thing that's ever happened to me", adding: "I never thought I'd be in this position, I barely thought I'd make it through the first two or three votes or so." They say they hope their family feels as proud as they do. Find out the name of the winner and more about the final here.

The new Covid booster target to tackle the Omicron variant dominates the front pages this morning. The Daily Telegraph says a million jabs a day will be offered to avoid a lockdown in the new year. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s "turbocharged" million boosters a day plan is a "hugely ambitious" move, the Daily Mail reports. Meanwhile, the i avoids figures in its headline by simply giving the message to get the booster to beat the Omicron "tidal wave". The Daily Mirror also goes down this line, telling readers to "get your booster now" as Mr Johnson, according to the Guardian, gambles on an unprecedented ramping up of vaccines. Read the newspaper review in full here.

There’s an experiment going on that will create temperatures hotter than the sun - on an industrial estate in England. It’s home to a nuclear fusion reactor, the technology from which could unlock the key to generating vast amounts of low-carbon energy. Watch to find out more.
What do you do when you want to be somewhere but you just can't get there and video calls don't cut it? The technology could solve that problem. Unable to fly due to coronavirus restrictions, the boss of a Swiss watch brand was beamed into a world trade event. Life-sized 3D hologram technology meant he could be there in real time to talk to, see and hear people there. Here’s the full story.
And a 3D hologram could have worked here too, but Father Christmas had other ideas. He came up with a creative solution to see children in one hospital because he wasn’t allowed in wards due to the pandemic. With the help of firefighters, he saw children face-to-face and waved at them through the glass on different floors. Take a look.

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