Five million in the U.K. have gotten a vaccine and officials hint the variant may be more deadly, though it’s too soon to tell.

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

source https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/22/world/europe/five-million-in-the-uk-have-gotten-a-vaccine-and-officials-hint-the-variant-may-be-more-deadly-though-its-too-soon-to-tell.html