Weekly totals of variants in Japan
Week 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45
PQ.1 11 12 3 4 2
Total 61 46 28 17 7
PQ.1 % 18% 26% 11% 24% 29%

Last Updated: 4th November 2025 21:51 GMT — 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.