| Weekly totals of variants in all locations (by specimen date) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 |
| BA.2.86.1.1.16.1.7.9 | 44 | 39 | 66 | 67 | 37 | 55 | 77 | 73 | 52 | 38 | 12 | 1 | – |
| Total | 460 | 431 | 464 | 485 | 413 | 398 | 497 | 485 | 439 | 269 | 127 | 6 | – |
| BA.2.86.1.1.16.1.7.9 % | 10% | 9% | 14% | 14% | 9% | 14% | 15% | 15% | 12% | 14% | 9% | 17% | – |
Last Updated: 22nd August 2026 12:58 BST — Local: …
Growth Charts
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.