Weekly totals of variants in all locations (by specimen date)
Week 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51
XFG 1351 1145 812 528 260 56 12
NB.1.8.1 369 285 221 177 100 27 3
BA.3.2 12 26 12 23 26 7 2
Total 1891 1602 1149 800 440 101 17
XFG % 71% 71% 71% 66% 59% 55% 71%
NB.1.8.1 % 20% 18% 19% 22% 23% 27% 18%
BA.3.2 % 1% 2% 1% 3% 6% 7% 12%

Last Updated: 15th December 2025 22:27 GMT — Local:

Growth Charts

Growth chart for XFG
Growth chart for NB.1.8.1
Growth chart for BA.3.2

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.