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Irish Mirror
Irish Mirror
National
Eithne Dodd & Rebecca Daly

Highly transmissible 'Kraken' subvariant likely to become the dominant strain of Covid-19 in Ireland

The new sub-variant of Covid-19 is likely to become the dominant strain of coronavirus in Ireland.

Dubbed ‘Kraken’, it is a variant of the Omicron strain and is highly transmissible.

The new strain of Covid is known officially as XBB.1.5 and has been tearing its way through the United States.

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