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Coronavirus: Downing Street press conference December 8th 2021; Part 2 of 13ENGLAND: London: Westminster: Downing Street:INTBoris Johnson MP (Prime Minister) statement SOT.- As we set out in Plan B, we will give businesses a week's notice, so this will come into force in a week's time,helping to keep these events and venues open at full capacity,while giving everyone who attends them confidence that those around them have done the responsible thing to minimise risk to others.As Omicron spreads in the community, we will also introduce daily tests for contacts instead of isolation,so we keep people safe while minimising the disruption to daily life.And of course we will take every step to ensure our NHS is ready for the challenges ahead.But the single biggest thing that every one of us can do,is to get our jabsand crucially to get that booster as soon as our turn arrives.One year to the day since the UK became the first country in the world to administer a Covid vaccine into the arms of Margaret Keenan,we have opened up the vaccine booster to all those over 40,and we are reducing the gap between second dose and booster to a minimum of just three months.Our heroic NHS staff and volunteers have already done almost 21 million boosters,including reaching 84 per cent of all the eligible over 80s.But we need to go further and faster still,because our scientists are absolutely confident that your immune response will be stronger if you have been boosted.And while you are at it - please get your flu jab too.Let's do everything we can to protect ourselves and our loved ones this winter - and to reduce the pressures on our NHS.As we learn more, so we will be guided by the hard medical data around four key criteria:the efficacy of our vaccines and our boosters,the severity of Omicron,the speed of its spread,and the rate of hospitalisations.We will constantly monitor the dat...