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Hancock says that "The variant could be up to 50 percent more transmissible than the Kent strain" The reason its 50% more transmissible is because the communities living in Blackburn with darwen break the rules 50% more.

'' Could be'' doesn't mean  ''is'', and the last bit is your speculation. Perhaps the Indian variant is more readily transmitted because of the type of mutation. Just like the Kent variant was more easily transmitted than before. You remember, that variant that was first identified in Kent, and was then 'exported' to Europe and USA through open borders and person to person mixing :rolleyes