But you haven’t told me where you got that information.
https://www.cogconsortium.uk/news_item/update-on-new-sars-cov-2-variant-and-how-cog-uk-tracks-emerging-mutations/
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/phe-investigating-a-novel-variant-of-covid-19
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(20)31537-3#%20
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/ebiom/article/PIIS2352-3964(20)30488-6/fulltext
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2895-3
Always go to the published research. The media always screws up the story, sometimes maliciously. The politicians always screw up the story, most often maliciously.