A glimmer of hope in the U.K.: Nearly 5 million have received vaccine shots.

The figure amounts to about 8 percent of the population, in a country where it could take months to control the spread of a highly transmissible variant.

source https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/22/world/europe/a-glimmer-of-hope-in-the-uk-nearly-5-million-have-received-vaccine-shots.html