Names looking similar to the one of this variant have been mentioned on the news already, so it might not be completely surprising for some people that this is about SARS-Cov2.
The nomenclature is called PANGO by the way. It is named after the software tool "Phylogenetic Assignment of Named Global Outbreak Lineages" (PANGOLIN) which is used to classify lineages of SARS-Cov2.
