Weekly totals of variants in all locations
Week 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36
XFG 1251 1336 1383 1337 856 288 31
NB.1.8.1 714 639 627 530 295 142 4
XFP 2 1
Total 2518 2402 2406 2147 1344 477 36
XFG % 50% 56% 57% 62% 64% 60% 86%
NB.1.8.1 % 28% 27% 26% 25% 22% 30% 11%
XFP % 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%

Last Updated: 4th September 2025 07:44 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.