PEOPLE in Worcestershire hoping to have their Covid boosters will be able to do so in the next couple of weeks.

Many people were reporting difficulties with booking their boosters, with the NHS website only showing bookings in January.

Despite this, the capacity for booster appointments will be massively expanded in the next few weeks allowing people to get jabbed.

The vaccination site at Worcester Racecourse is open today (Monday, December 13) for walk-ins, as are the St Peter's site (limited and only Monday morning) and the Three Counties Showground.

Residents struggling to get a booster appointment are being told not to panic and remain patient as thousands more appointments will be made available shortly.

The expansion comes after the government urged as many people as possible to get their booster amid fears over the omicron variant.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson, in a pre-recorded address to the nation on Sunday evening, said Britain “must urgently reinforce our wall of vaccine protection” as he set the new deadline of jabbing everyone over 18 by the new year.

He said scientists had discovered that two doses of a vaccine is “simply not enough” to prevent the spread of the new variant and that, without a lightning speed mass booster campaign, the NHS could be overwhelmed.

The mission to administer millions more jabs by December 31 will see 42 military planning teams deployed across every health region.

Mr Johnson said: “To hit the pace we need, we’ll need to match the NHS’s best vaccination day so far – and then beat that day after day.

“This will require an extraordinary effort.

“And as we focus on boosters and make this new target achievable, it will mean some other appointments will need to be postponed until the new year.

“But if we don’t do this now, the wave of Omicron could be so big that cancellations and disruptions, like the loss of cancer appointments, would be even greater next year.”