Weekly totals of variants in all locations (by specimen date)
Week 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41
ST.1 55 58 79 81 85 47 1 –
PJ.2.1 26 35 56 46 68 36 2 –
TK.1 21 40 44 48 29 10 1 –
TA.1 38 47 43 53 35 12 3 –
Total 1065 1106 1125 914 666 269 46 –
ST.1 % 5% 5% 7% 9% 13% 17% 2% –
PJ.2.1 % 2% 3% 5% 5% 10% 13% 4% –
TK.1 % 2% 4% 4% 5% 4% 4% 2% –
TA.1 % 4% 4% 4% 6% 5% 4% 7% –

Last Updated: 9th October 2026 21:12 BST — Local: …

Growth Charts

Growth chart for ST.1
Growth chart for PJ.2.1
Growth chart for TK.1
Growth chart for TA.1

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.