Only 85.3 per cent of children in England aged five in 2020/21 had received their polio booster, leaving more than 100,000 at risk of paralysis or death.

There were 155 Covid fatalities per 100,000 triple-vaccinated people in their seventies in England in January, compared to 2,248 deaths among those still only double-vaccinated – a 14-fold difference.

Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures show three jabs lower the chance of being killed by Covid when compared to not having a vaccine at all.

NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard is frustrated that a fraction of the eligible population in the state have had the booster shot, despite plenty of boosters remaining available.

Boris Johnson yesterday ruled out following other European countries in making vaccinations compulsory. But officials are drawing up plans to strip double-jabbed people of ‘fully-vaccinated status’

New York City’s newly-inaugurated Mayor Eric Adams (pictured) says he’ll mull a booster mandate for municipal employees, including teachers and cops as the Big Apple grapples with the virus

Early real-world analysis shows the efficacy of Pfizer’s top-up dose at preventing symptoms drops to 35 per cent 2.5 months after getting a third dose among those double-jabbed with AstraZeneca.

NHS England has said that thousands of first, second and third jabs will be given on December 25 as the Government races to boost national immunity against the Omicron Covid variant.