| 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.2.86.1.1.16.1.7.9.1 | 16 | 17 | 37 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 38 | 26 | 20 | 32 | 8 | – | – |
| Total | 773 | 530 | 504 | 425 | 442 | 405 | 369 | 309 | 203 | 169 | 50 | – | – |
| BA.2.86.1.1.16.1.7.9.1 % | 2% | 3% | 7% | 7% | 7% | 7% | 10% | 8% | 10% | 19% | 16% | – | – |
Last Updated: 4th July 2026 21:59 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.