| Weekly totals of variants in all locations (by specimen date) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 |
| PQ.2.8.1 | 120 | 98 | 65 | 49 | 64 | 40 | 29 | 24 | 15 | 15 | 10 | 11 | 1 |
| Total | 802 | 553 | 544 | 464 | 474 | 448 | 407 | 361 | 345 | 330 | 213 | 167 | 104 |
| PQ.2.8.1 % | 15% | 18% | 12% | 11% | 14% | 9% | 7% | 7% | 4% | 5% | 5% | 7% | 1% |
Last Updated: 25th July 2026 21:58 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.