Weekly totals of variants in all locations (by specimen date)
Week 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33
XFG 129 94 110 79 32 4
NB.1.8.1 135 141 145 147 100 30
BA.3.2 41 33 27 20 12
Total 364 334 377 328 192 36
XFG % 35% 28% 29% 24% 17% 11%
NB.1.8.1 % 37% 42% 38% 45% 52% 83%
BA.3.2 % 11% 10% 7% 6% 6% 0%

Last Updated: 9th August 2026 21:58 BST — 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.