Weekly totals of variants in all locations (by specimen date)
Week 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
BA.2.86.1 27 26 44 33 30 33 43 32 41 56 19 30 16
Total 802 553 544 464 474 448 407 361 345 330 213 167 104
BA.2.86.1 % 3% 5% 8% 7% 6% 7% 11% 9% 12% 17% 9% 18% 15%

Last Updated: 25th July 2026 21:58 BST — Local:

Growth Charts

Growth chart for BA.2.86.1

Acknowledgements

We gratefully acknowledge GISAID and the many data contributors around the world for sharing SARS-CoV-2 sequences.

This analysis makes use of the Nextclade CLI.
Aksamentov, I., Roemer, C., Hodcroft, E. B., & Neher, R. A., (2021). Nextclade: clade assignment, mutation calling and quality control for viral genomes. Journal of Open Source Software, 6(67), 3773, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.03773

Special thanks to Josette Schoenmakers ( @josetteschoenma.bsky.social on BlueSky @JosetteSchoenma on Twitter) for the table concepts.