Charities supporting homeless people are facing financial struggles after paying out thousands on hotel fees after Covid shut communal sleeping areas.

Health bosses trying to complete the government's booster jab programme have commandeered a mothballed hospital ward as a vaccination centre.

Former teachers are being asked to consider returning to the classroom to help cover Covid absences schools are expected to face in January.

Organisers of a huge outdoor carol-singing event say they have reluctantly cancelled the gathering because of rising Covid cases.

People in Kent are on tenterhooks over whether there will be harsher new Covid-19 restrictions that might affect their festive plans.

Stricter measures before Christmas have not been ruled out by the Health Secretary as Omicron caused record cases in one part of the county.

Alarming new figures suggest Omicron is already the dominant variant in Kent - and causing record case numbers in one borough.

The latest government data has revealed Dartford has one of the highest Covid rates in the UK.

A young worker at a vaccine clinic was left in tears this evening after facing abuse because of hour-long queues for jabs.

A pub has been forced to close at short notice and cancel festive bookings due to staff needing to isolate.

Staff are preparing to convert an unused hospital ward into a new Covid vaccine centre, it is said.

It is just a few hours until France shuts its borders to most travellers from the UK in response to a rise in Omicron cases.

Chief medical officer tells MPs to expect high demand for hospital beds for Covid patients as new variant bites.

When our reporter was invited to a press appearance with Boris Johnson in East Kent, he spent more time staring at pastries than the PM.

The manager of a walk-in vaccine site with 'no queue' is urging people to drop in for a Covid booster.

GPs attempting to administer Covid booster jabs to every adult by the new year say it is 'a huge challenge'.

The Prime Minister visited an East Kent vaccination centre, as the NHS accelerates the emergency Covid booster rollout.

Kent County Council has called off a meeting amid spiralling covid rates.

British people are to be banned from travelling to France from this weekend after a huge rise in the number of cases of the new Covid variant.

Boris Johnson has urged very adult over 18 in the country to get "get boosted now" as Omicron continues to spread.