Weekly totals of variants in Malaysia (by specimen date)
Week 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
NB.1.8.1 1 1
XFG 1 1 1
BA.3.2 3 2 3 5 3
Total 4 4 4 5 4
NB.1.8.1 % 25% 25% 0% 0% 0%
XFG % 0% 25% 25% 0% 25%
BA.3.2 % 75% 50% 75% 100% 75%

Last Updated: 16th May 2026 21:58 BST — Local:

Growth Charts

Growth chart for NB.1.8.1
Growth chart for XFG
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.