Weekly totals of variants in all locations
Week 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43
XFG 3066 2657 2538 2029 1129 145 7
NB.1.8.1 813 690 634 415 212 27
XFP
Total 4304 3655 3500 2722 1476 194 8
XFG % 71% 73% 73% 75% 76% 75% 88%
NB.1.8.1 % 19% 19% 18% 15% 14% 14% 0%
XFP % 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%

Last Updated: 21st October 2025 07:45 BST — Local:

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.