Kraken variant
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English[edit]
This English term is a hot word. Its inclusion on Wiktionary is provisional.
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- (neologism) The highly transmissible XBB.1.5 strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19. A subvariant of the Omicron variant (“B.1.1.529”). Kraken became the predominant strain in the United States at the end of 2022.
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