COVID-19 variant B.1.1.7 cases in the UK as of May 19, 2021, by country

Published by Statista Research Department, May 9, 2025
As of May 19, 2021, 249,637 cases of the B.1.1.7 COVID-19 variant had been reported in the United Kingdom, with England accounting for over 207 thousand of those cases. The variant B.1.17, also known as the UK variant or the Kent variant, came to prominence in late 2020 and appeared to transmit between people easier than the original virus that started the pandemic. Even though viruses mutating is not unexpected, the worry for scientists and experts is establishing the effectiveness of vaccines currently in use are against new variants.

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Number of reported cases of COVID-19 variant B.1.1.7 in the United Kingdom (UK) as of May 19, 2021, by country

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May 2021

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United Kingdom

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as of May 19, 2021

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Source adds that there is no agreed international naming system for variants. Variant B.1.1.7 is also know as Variant VOC-202012/01.
Cases for England include confirmed and probable cases from this variant. Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland have not reported probable cases.
This statistic using original data from the Government Digital Service and includes copyright material licensed under © Crown, the Open Government License v3.0

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