First case of ‘Kraken’ Covid variant detected in Russia

The discovery will not lead to the introduction of restrictions, the country’s consumer watchdog has said

The first case of a new, more contagious Covid-19 sub-variant known as the ‘Kraken’ has been recorded in Russia, the country’s consumer watchdog, Rospotrebnadzor, announced on Thursday.

An infection with the Omicron subvariant officially known as XBB.1.5 was found in Penza Region in central Russia, 600km southeast of Moscow, as part of the monitoring of information uploaded daily to the Virus Genome Aggregator of Russia.

The woman who contracted the disease has not left Russia within the past two months, the agency said. She had the disease in a mild form and recovered in the space of a week, it added.

“Currently, a wide range of varieties of the Omicron strain has been detected in Russia, but the dominant strain is still Omicron BA.5,” which has been around since early 2022, the agency said.

Rospotrebnadzor added that there are no plans to introduce any new restrictions in the country due to the discovery of the variant. It was nicknamed ‘Kraken’ by scientists due to the shape of the virus, which resembles the mythical sea monster.

What the World Health Organization (WHO) earlier described as “the most transmissible subvariant that has been detected yet” was first tracked down in the US in October. XBB 1.5 has become the dominant coronavirus strain in America.

On Thursday, the WHO said that Kraken infections have already been reported by 38 nations. “Based on its genetic characteristics and early growth rate estimates, XBB.1.5 may contribute to increases in case incidence globally,” the UN health body warned.

Assessment of the severity of the new strain is ongoing, the WHO said, adding that the Kraken is not known to carry mutations that could make it more or less harsh.

Last week, Russian infectious disease specialist Sergey Voznesensky said the rapid spread of the new variant around the world is no reason for panic. It is a subvariant of Omicron and all of them are “more transmissible than all previous variants… and they cause a milder form of the disease,” he explained.

https://www.rt.com/russia/569740-kraken-coronavirus-omicron-penza/

EXCLUSIVE: Attorney Believes Evidence Will Soon Be Released That Confirms FBI in 2016 Investigated Seth Rich’s Laptop, Knew He Supplied Emails to WikiLeaks and Knew Russia Collusion Was a LIE

Ty Clevenger is the bulldog attorney who has been after the DOJ and FBI for years to get to the bottom of who supplied the DNC’s and Podesta’s emails to WikiLeaks. He believes we may be only a few months away from knowing.

On Wednesday, attorney Ty Clevenger joined the Joe Hoft Show on TNT Radio to discuss his case involving Seth Rich and the DNC and the Podesta emails that were released by WikiLeaks before the 2016 election.

We now know that there is no information whatsoever that Russia hacked the DNC and stole emails or provided them to WikiLeaks. It was a lie perpetrated by the Deep State and mainstream media for years. This lie was finally admitted by the DOJ in a hidden release of documents on late election night, November 3, 2020 and later in court documents.

Roger Stone and others were vindicated, but how the DNC and Podesta emails made it to WikiLeaks was never addressed. It was revealed that the DOJ knew the Steele dossier was a sham and a lie and yet used this and the phony story of Russia collusion in an attempted coup of the Trump Administration. No one has been charged with sedition or the overthrow of the Trump Administration to date and yet this lie haunted the country for the entire four years of the Trump Administration.

Clevenger has been attempting to get to the bottom of who supplied the DNC and Podesta emails to the DNC for several years now. This was always the key to the Russia collusion nightmare. If Russia didn’t supply emails to WikiLeaks (the FBI has never asked WikiLeaks who supplied the emails by the way) then the Russia collusion story was built on a lie.

After years of denying they had anything related to Seth Rich, the FBI and DOJ were caught lying over and over again. In September, a judge finally demanded the FBI and DOJ provide all they had in regard to Seth Rich and the FBI responded requesting another 66 years before releasing the information.

Attorney Clevenger, who’s been after the truth for years, shared the following yesterday (starting at the 17:30 mark in the audio below).

I think we’re getting close to the final step which is to show that the US government unequivocally fabricated the whole initiative. I mean this was not just an exaggeration based on Christopher Steele’s report, I think we’re on the verge of showing that before Christopher Steele’s report came about, that the FBI and the CIA knew for sure that the Russians had nothing to do with this hack.

Specifically, I think we’re getting close to getting our hands on some of the Seth Rich documents, and all evidence so far points to him being the source of the leaks rather than hackers from Russia.

Clevenger next shared the background on Seth Rich:

Back in 2016 Seth Rich was working for the Democrat National Committee. He was murdered on July 10 of that year in what the police called a botched robbery. Although his watch wasn’t taken, his phone wasn’t taken, other valuables like his wallet were not taken. Although there was immediate suspicion that he was involved release of DNC emails that were later published by WikiLeaks.

Julian Assange himself, the founder of WikiLeaks, all but said that the documents came from Seth Rich and they offered a $20,000 reward leading the arrest of the people that were responsible for the murder…

We’re trying to get that last step and show that the FBI and the CIA and the whole Obama Administration knew that this came from Seth Rich and they completely fabricated the Russia collusion narrative out of whole cloth.

I think we’re getting close. Within the past two or three months the FBI was forced to disclose that it has a report on Seth Rich’s work laptop. They’ve hidden that from us for five years and they just finally admitted this. They’re trying to withhold it.

Clevenger goes on to share that reporter Sey Hersh stated under oath that:

A friend of his that he’d known for 35 years in the Intel community read to him from a report stating that the DNC leaks came from Seth Rich. FOX News relied on sources that were reading from such a report.

So we think that we’ve identified that report that would show that they have known all along.

Clevenger goes on to discuss Crowdstrike was relied on to investigate the servers at the DNC and the FBI never did and the CIA’s involvement and responses declining to deny of involvement.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/breaking-exclusive-next-months-attorney-believes-evidence-will-released-showing-2016-fbi-investigated-seth-richs-laptop-knew-supplied-emails-wikileaks-knew-russia-collusion/

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