| Weekly totals of variants in all locations (by specimen date) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 |
| XFG | 269 | 211 | 150 | 49 | 35 | 8 | – | – |
| NB.1.8.1 | 178 | 161 | 197 | 81 | 66 | 38 | – | – |
| BA.3.2 | 135 | 94 | 76 | 61 | 29 | 18 | – | – |
| Total | 660 | 510 | 452 | 215 | 168 | 69 | – | – |
| XFG % | 41% | 41% | 33% | 23% | 21% | 12% | – | – |
| NB.1.8.1 % | 27% | 32% | 44% | 38% | 39% | 55% | – | – |
| BA.3.2 % | 20% | 18% | 17% | 28% | 17% | 26% | – | – |
Last Updated: 18th May 2026 21:58 BST — Local: …
Growth Charts
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.