Weekly totals of variants in Canada (by specimen date)
Week 47 48 49 50 51 52 01 02
XFG 325 252 190 190 96
Total 454 344 311 271 147
XFG % 72% 73% 61% 70% 65%

Last Updated: 11th January 2026 16:27 GMT — Local:

Growth Charts

Growth chart for XFG

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.