The fear is that the Covid variant might be more transmissible and could possibly stunt the ability of vaccines to reduce the spread.
So far, the UK has done exceedingly well in deploying the vaccine to its population.
More than 32,693,527 people have received their first Covid vaccination, and over 9,416,968 people have had their second vaccine.
There has been some concern over the blood-clotting cases in the AstraZeneca vaccine, but the risk is extremely low.