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More Than 100,000 people trying to book their Covid booster jabs on Monday has led to the NHS website crashing, the government has said.

Lateral flow test kits are also unavailable on the government website after a rush to order them.

This came after the Prime Minister said over-18s in England would be offered a third dose by the end of the year.

And fully jabbed people will be advised to test themselves daily if they are a contact of a Covid case from Tuesday.

Long queues at walk-in vaccine centres in England were also reported on Monday after Boris Johnson announced an expansion to the booster rollout on Sunday evening, in response to the Omicron variant.

Online bookings for the over 30s opened from Monday, while 18-29 year olds are due to begin booking on Wednesday.

An Nhs Digital spokesperson said: " The vaccine booking service is facing extremely high demand and is operating a queuing system to manage numbers.

" We would advise people currently unable to book to try again later today or tomorrow. "

Jo, 37, from Cambridge told The Bbc it took her Three Hours to book an appointment for January and she had gone " round in circles" before managing to do so.

Separately there has been an issue with ordering lateral flow tests from the government website, which said " there are no more home tests available".

The Department for Health said the government was looking into the issue which had arisen after The Announcement on daily testing.

A spokesperson advised people to go to local pharmacies where testing kits are still available.

Under the new policy, people who have been in contact with a Covid case will not need to isolate if The Daily tests remain negative for Seven Days and they have had at least two vaccine doses.

Anyone who has a positive result from a rapid test should take a confirmatory PCR test to verify the result, as well as continue to self-isolate.

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To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Media caption, Watch: Health Secretary Sajid Javid is asked if Covid measures are out of step with The Risk from Omicron

At Wimbledon's Centre Court Shopping Centre in south-west London, the queue for walk-in jabs stretched from one end of The Building to The Other after just 30 Minutes of being open.

By 09:00 GMT, More Than 100 adults - mostly under-40s wearing masks and some with babies in buggies - were waiting.

In the West Midlands , a long queue of about 200 people was forming around a Car Park and side roads at the back of the vaccination centre in Lye, near Stourbridge.

People at The Front said they had Waited For about an hour to reach The Entrance , with Some People with booked appointments choosing to leave after being forced to wait.

On Monday, Health Secretary Sajid Javid over the spread of Omicron.

He Said the new highly-transmissible Covid-19 variant was spreading at a " phenomenal rate" with cases doubling every two to Three Days .

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